Archives: Team Members

Venk has had a long and varied career that includes sales, marketing, and general management, and has a proven track record of leading companies through rapid growth. He has worked as a senior marketing executive in large technology companies in Silicon Valley and has been involved with numerous early stage companies as an executive, investor,… Continue reading Venkatesh Shukla

Dr. Laukien has been an experienced technology investor for 15 years.  He is currently President & CEO of Black Forest Ventures LLC, an asset management firm with an investment focus in technology, hospitality, corporate aviation and commercial real estate. Under his leadership, Black Forest Ventures has grown to more than $500M in assets, and provides growth capital to numerous technology companies… Continue reading Dirk Laukien, Ph.D.

Anantha P. Chandrakasan received the B.S, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989, 1990, and 1994 respectively. Since September 1994, he has been with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, where he is currently the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. … Continue reading Anantha Chandrakasan

Pavan Kumar Hanumolu brings more than 15 years of experience in research and development of energy-efficient integrated circuits for wireline communication systems, clock generation and recovery circuits, data conversion, and power management circuits. He has published more than 125 articles on these topics and as a distinguished lecturer of the solid-state circuits society. He is… Continue reading Pavan Hanumolu

Kevin P. Guay brings over 25 years of experience in layout design, EDA, CAD, IP-reuse and automation to Omni Design. From 1989 to 1999 he worked at IBM in Physical Failure Analysis and Layout Design, where he received numerous awards for productivity and yield improvement.  From 1999 to 2005 he worked at Cadence Design Systems… Continue reading Kevin Guay

Drew Peck has been a researcher and technology analyst for over 35 years. He was a member of the Quantum Electronics Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and then spent 20 years as a Wall Street analyst at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette and Cowen & Company, where he was a partner and managing director leading the firm’s… Continue reading Drew Peck

Sid Dutta is Co-Founder and Advisor. Sid Dutta brings over 22 years of broad experience in high performance analog design and development at industry leaders and startups. Sid has personally designed and supervised over 26 integrated circuits in mass production in CMOS,  BiCMOS, BCD and SiGe processes.  Prior to joining Omni Design, Sid was Design… Continue reading Sid Dutta

Jim Bales brings over 30 years of experience and leadership in analog/mixed-signal integrated circuit design and product development at industry leading semiconductor companies.  He has led all phases of commercial integrated circuit product development from definition through release and has led or made key contributions to over 25 IC products in bipolar, BiCMOS, and CMOS… Continue reading Jim Bales

Dr. Manar El-Chammas received the B.E. degree in computer and communications engineering from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, in 2004, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, in 2006 and 2010, respectively, where his research focused on multi-GS/s time-interleaved ADCs.  He joined Texas Instruments in 2010, where he worked on… Continue reading Manar El-Chammas, Ph.D.

​Pankaj Mayor is currently Executive Vice President of Global Sales at Arteris IP. He is currently advising Omni Design Technologies in Sales, Business Development and Marketing. Previously Pankaj was Sr. Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Omni Design. Prior to that he was Vice President of Marketing/CMO at ANSYS with responsibility for worldwide marketing… Continue reading Pankaj Mayor