Charlie Huang

Charlie Huang is a 14-year veteran of the electronic design automation industry who has experience as a technologist, manager, entrepreneur, CEO, and senior executive. Mr. Huang was a General Partner at Telos Venture Partners in 2004 and 2005, after serving as Corporate Vice President of Integrated Circuit Solutions Business Development at Cadence Design Systems. He held a variety of responsibilities at Cadence including product line management, product marketing and strategy, business development, mergers & acquisitions, and foundry relationships.

Before joining Cadence, he co-founded CadMOS Design Technology - a company that provided solutions to signal integrity problems in ultra deep sub-micron processes. As CEO of CadMOS, Mr. Huang raised venture capital from a variety of investors and managed the company through its successful acquisition by Cadence in 2001. Prior to CadMOS, he was VP of R&D at EPIC Design Technology, a start up that pioneered static timing analysis, fastmos, and RC extraction technologies for IC designs. He was responsible for the development of EPIC's flagship products, PowerMill and PathMill tools. Subsequent to EPIC Design's successful IPO in 1996, it was acquired by Synopsys and Charlie was named Vice President of R&D in the EPICTechnology Group.

Charlie holds Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and an MSEE and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a U.S. patent on piecewise linear event driven simulation.