Leadership

Prakash Narain, PhD
President, CEO

Dr. Prakash Narain’s career spans IBM, AMD and Sun where he got hands on experience with all aspects of IC design, CAD tools design and methodology. He was the project leader for test and verification for UltraSPARC III at Sun Microsystems. He was an architect of the Mercury Design System at AMD. He has architected and developed CAD tools for test and verification for IBM EDA. Dr. Narain has a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana where his thesis focus was on algorithms for high level testing and verification.

Rajiv Kumar
VP, Engineering

Rajiv Kumar spent almost 12 years at Hewlett-Packard in both engineering and managerial capacities, where he worked on several generations of the PA-RISC processor and HP’s high-end server systems, along with the joint development of Itanium processor with Intel’s engineering team. He was a key architect for HP’s transition from 32-bit to 64-bit platform where he led over 100 engineers in delivering HP’s first 64-bit system. Mr. Kumar holds graduate degrees in management from Stanford and in computer science from University of Oregon.

Oren Katzir
VP, App Eng & Bus Dev

Oren leads Real Intent’s Application Engineering (AE) team that supports the sales team and customers. He brings to his new position more than 15 years of experience in engineering management, SoC and ASIC design, and development of SoC design tool flows. Previously, Oren was an engineering manager at Intel, leading an SoC engineering team.  He also held engineering management positions at Sagantec, Silicon Design Systems, Transchip and Silicon Value. Oren holds a BS in computer engineering from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Vishnu Vimjan

Vishnu Vimjam, PhD
Chief Product Officer

Dr. Vishnu Vimjam has more than 15 years of experience in developing state-of-the-art EDA verification and sign-off tools as an architect and a technologist. As chief product officer, Dr. Vimjam applies his deep technical knowledge and expert understanding of customers’ challenging verification needs to drive product development for Real Intent’s world-class solutions for accelerating RTL sign-off, working with R&D and product management to design, build and test new products. Prior to Real Intent, he held consecutive summer internships at Intel. He holds an engineering degree from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Vinod Viswanath

Vinod Viswanath, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer

Dr. Vinod Viswanath brings nearly two decades of experience in developing and driving hardware architecture, formal methods, and static sign-off methodologies and tools. As chief scientific officer, Dr. Viswanath drives Real Intent’s cross product platform architecture, in addition to developing key wide ranging RTL sign-off application functionality. Previously, he worked at Intel as senior formal methods engineer. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.Phil. in Engineering and Applied Science, both from Yale University. He has authored approximately 20 publications.