In 2003, Satish Bagalkotkar co-founded Synapse Design, today the industry leader providing design services for highly complex SOCs for the top system and semiconductor companies worldwide. Since founding the Company, Satish has served as President and CEO responsible for vision and strategy that has driven continuous growth, including tripling revenue over the past five years and more recently, doubling revenue every 18 months. Prior to founding Synapse Design, Satish led the development of the industry’s first 20GB router chip set while with Silicon Access Networks. Previous to Silicon Access, Satish was responsible for development of four generations of microprocessors at HAL Computer Systems, leading to the acquisition of HAL Computer Systems by Fujitsu. Satish holds a MSEE from University of Louisville in Kentucky.

Satish Bagalkotkar
President, CEO & Co-Founder

Mr. Gautam co-founded Synapse Design in 2003 along with Satish Bagalkotkar and is responsible for Worldwide Operations and day–to–day management of the entire organization. He has a rich 17 year background in the design services space with roles in general management, sales and operations. Prior to co-founding Synapse Design, Devesh was in charge of sales and operations at Spike Technologies, where he was responsible for 75% of total revenue. He was also a key member of the executive management staff that enabled the Spike acquisition by Qualcomm.

Devesh Gautam
COO & Co-Founder

Mr. Kahle is an industry veteran with over 30 years of experience in the IC design industry. Prior to Synapse Design, Mr. Kahle held various senior management level positions with QThink, Cadence Design Systems, and Unisys Corporation, and started his career at Texas Instruments. Mr. Kahle has experience in Front-to-Back ASIC design, EDA tool flow development and integration, software development, and library development. During his career, he has established design services relationships with the major semiconductor companies, EDA tool vendors, IP suppliers and silicon foundries. Mr. Kahle received his Bachelor`s degree in Computer Science from Southern Illinois University, and has spent time doing VLSI research under Carver Mead at Caltech, as part of the Silicon Structures Project.

Charlie Kahle
CTO

Mr. Hemeon is outstanding in building key relationships at tier-one accounts. Jim goes above and beyond the call of duty to help others plus he brings a very lively spirit to work. Mr. Hemeon is responsible for worldwide market & revenue for Synapse Design and has over twenty-seven years of Semi & EDA industry experience. This includes fifteen years of engineering (Wang Labs, Lockheed-Sanders Avionics, and Synopsys) and over twelve years of Sales & Business Development, having developed a worldwide, Tier-1 client base. This includes extensive, C-level, international relationships with Fortune 500 companies and a record of bringing semi & software startups (DynaChip, Aristo) to successful exit.

Jim Hemeon
Vice President, Worldwide Strategic Accounts

Mr. King brings over 30 years of experience in sales and marketing leadership positions and a proven track record in creating and executing sales strategy to penetrate major accounts. Mr. King has an exceptional record of accomplishments in achieving aggressive design-win goals and building executive level relationships as a senior sales executive for leading technology companies: Semiconductors (Motorola, Fairchild, MMI and NEC); Electronic Design Automation (Cadence Design Systems and Monterey Design Systems) and Intellectual Property/Design Services (ARM, Qthink and eSilicon). Mr. King received his BS degree from Arizona State University.

Tom King
Vice President of Business Development

Mike Buckley is recognized as an industry leader in helping fortune 500 companies build technical organizations in Northern America. His ability to network with executives and engineers has allowed companies to expand design groups and open design centers across the world. Mike has been the champion in building executive and technical teams for companies like AMD, Fujitsu, IBM, Sun and Infineon to name a few. Mike continues to build relationships and deliver services globally to the semiconductor and electronics industry. Mike`s expertise and experience spans all the vertical segments of the semiconductor, software and systems arena.

Mike Buckley
Staffing and Business Development Manager

Hem Hingarh brings over 35 years of semiconductor and System industry experience. He brings product development and Engineering management leadership to Synapse. Most recently Hem Hingarh was executive Vice President of Mosys Inc; responsible for worldwide Engineering and product development for High speed Embedded DRAM, Serial Memories, Display Driver memories, Embedded Flash memory and Mixed Signal SOC.

Hem Hingarh
Vice President of Engineering

Mr. Brambilla`s strengths are his technical skills, his ability to build teams and to build respect and trust with the Customer; he was previously at STMicroelectronics, where in the last eleven years he has executed several projects, always at or with external customers, always taping out first-silicon successes and generating repeat business and increased customer confidence.

Marco Brambilla
Director of Engineering

Associate VP of Engineering Mr. Haque joined Synapse Design in April 2011 and is responsible for our leading edge technology developments, including multiple tapeouts in technologies down to 14nm. Previously Mr. Haque worked at AMD, where he led teams developing multiple mainstream and cutting edge processors from 2003 to 2011. His experience included development of complex CPU, GPU and mobile processors, plus chip solutions for networking, all in the most advanced silicon technologies. Prior to AMD, Anam worked in physical design at Qualcomm and Avanti.

Anamul Haque
Associate VP of Engineering

Mr. McKean has over 23 years of international experience in the design, application, marketing, and business development of commodity and application specific semiconductors. In his role at Synapse Design Mike is responsible for the day-to-day leadership of the Colorado Design Center. As part of the Executive Team Mike is also tasked with enabling revenue growth and driving the successful execution of key projects.

Mike McKean
Senior Director - Longmont Design Center