David Pellerin, Co-Founder and CEO, is a key architect of advances in language-based design for PLDs and FPGAs, and has published five books on the subject of programmable logic and related technologies. Mr. Pellerin earlier founded Accolade Design Automation, where he was the architect of the PeakVHDL™ and PeakFPGA™ advanced products for HDL-based design. Mr. Pellerin also served as Director of Marketing for Altium's FPGA Design Products, and directed tools development and marketing for Quicksilver Technology.

Brian Durwood, Co-Founder and COO, is former Vice President of Tektronix' Maxtek subsidiary, where he developed Marketing and Sales and managed the largest P&L line. Prior to that, Mr. Durwood was Vice President at Virtual Vision, a technology startup developing head-mounted displays. He was responsible for award-winning marketing and PR and led the Industrial Division. Mr. Durwood is an MBA graduate of Brown and Wharton.

David Buechner, VP of Business Development, is is former Vice President of Sales for Harris Corporation Network Support Division, where he managed a worldwide sales team of 80, managed 600 independent representatives and generated annual revenues of $120M. Mr. Buechner has 20 years of experience in executive sales management and marketing of industry-leading products to Fortune 50 customers.

Ralph Bodenner, VP of Product Development, has led the Impulse engineering team since 2003. Mr. Bodenner is an experienced product development leader who was previously a member of the Quicksilver Technology development staff. He has also served on product development teams at Amazon.com. Mr. Bodenner is a graduate of Duke University.