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- Matt Cossoul, Director of Firmware and Applications
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Defense, Intelligence and Aerospace (DI&A) Division | | | | Commercial Products Division | - Jason Wong, Manager of Strategic Accounts - Commercial Products Division
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Dr. Andrew Singer, CEO, CTO and Founder
Dr. Andrew Singer is an executive and technologist known for producing best-selling software and hardware products. As VP of Product Development and Founder in 1982 of Think Technologies, he created market-leading Macintosh software development tools, including Think C (LightspeedC). After selling Think to Symantec, he joined Radius in 1989 as VP of Engineering and delivered more than 30 products, most notably the Pivot landscape/portrait display. Radius went from $18M in revenue to a $350M market cap IPO within three years.
At Interval Research, a Paul Allen company, Dr. Singer was highly influential in shaping a unique research community throughout its eight-year lifespan. He provided assistance to Vulcan Ventures, Interval’s parent company, including acting as both CTO and CEO of a 25-person network hardware startup. From 1998 until early 2001, he was project leader of Interval’s reconfigurable computing project and CEO of Bitsqueeze, Inc., a startup created to commercialize large-scale reconfigurable computing.
Dr. Singer holds a Ph.D. and MS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts. He co-authored the programming texts Elementary Basic and Elementary Pascal, and he is the inventor on four issued US patents. He currently serves on the National Advisory Board of Mystic Seaport Museum. John A. Denney, CFA, Chief Financial Officer
John Denney brings to Rapport his extensive institutional investment background and entrepreneurial expertise, having managed or funded multiple technology ventures. These companies include Raman Medical, which he founded and ran as CEO. Raman’s diagnostics technology was well-received in the biomedical community and was featured in multiple SBIR grants. Prior to Raman, Mr. Denney was brought in as President and CFO to turn around Boston Advanced Technologies, Inc., whose technology enabled non-destructive petrochemical testing via electro-optical instrumentation. In four years, he took the company from insolvent to a successful restart, selling it for seven times gross revenues and ultimately preserving investment capital from Boston University’s venture arm and others. As a founding member of RhumbLine Advisers in 1990, Mr. Denney grew their asset base from zero to $1.5 billion in five years. Mr. Denney holds a degree in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts, is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and is active in the Association for Investment Management and Research. Pat Shubert, Vice President of Manufacturing Operations and Quality
Pat Shubert is heading up Rapport Incorporated’s manufacturing activities. Ms. Shubert is responsible for all elements of chip and hardware production, including relationships and contracts with foundries, test houses, chip packagers, intellectual property providers, design houses, contract manufacturers and others. Ms. Shubert has long-standing working relationships with Tier 1 international suppliers such as TSMC, UMC, ATE, Flextronics, Sanmina-SCI and Charter. She has put OEM deals in place for companies such as Creative Labs, Diamond Multimedia, Compaq and Packard Bell. Her extensive track record encompasses dozens of successful semiconductor and hardware products that incorporate cutting-edge processes and materials. Specific market launches include automated test systems created by NATIS for PG&E, along with millions of chips, chipsets and graphic boards from 3Dfx, Video7 and Headlands. Ms. Shubert’s quality management experience extends to ISO 9000 certification, significant quality metrics improvements and creation of end-to-end quality programs. Dr. Benjamin Levine, Director of Chip Development
Dr. Benjamin Levine’s graduate work at Carnegie Mellon University focused on reconfigurable computing architectures and applications. He was a key member of the team that developed the PipeRench reconfigurable architecture, a precursor to Rapport’s Kilocore. Dr. Levine worked with defense industry and government sponsors on PipeRench implementations of various image processing and target recognition applications. Under an IBM fellowship, Dr. Levine investigated architectures integrating reconfigurable computing fabrics with conventional processors. His FPGA-based research included a system for automatically implementing image and video processing applications, and near-Shannon Limit error correction codes. Dr. Levine’s Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering is from Carnegie Mellon University, and his M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering are from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Levine has published widely, has taught computer architecture and digital systems design at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh, and is an inventor on one U.S. patent application. Matt Cossoul, Director Firmware and Applications
Matt Cossoul has 10 years of experience in high speed FPGA design. Matt began his career at Xilinx where he spent 7 years holding a variety of technical and managerial roles. Matt lead the development of some key IP cores while there, notably the Transaction Layer of the first PCI Express implementation to reach the market. He held consecutive key roles in the creation of innovative FPGA verification techniques and in the business development of the Easypath product line. Prior to Rapport, Matt was Engineering Manager at Xyratex where he was responsible for the firmware development of a revolutionary laser imaging hard drive tester. Matt holds a MSEE degree from the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) and a BSEE from EFREI in Paris, France. Dr. Fred Furtek, Principal Software Architect
Dr. Furtek is Rapport’s Principal Software Architect, where he will continue his record of achievement as a groundbreaking innovator of tools for multiprocessor architectures, reconfigurable hardware, massively parallel algorithms and formal methods. Among the first to work on formal verification at MITRE and Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, he went on to found Concurrent Logic (later acquired by Atmel), one of the earliest field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) companies, whose technology was adopted by Apple, National Semiconductor, IBM and others. Later, Dr. Furtek focused on formal modeling and verification for digital design at Interval Research and Applied Combinatorics. He also led pioneering efforts to develop new computing platforms unrivalled in price, performance and power consumption at Interval and then QuickSilver Technology. Dr. Furtek holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, as well as a Ph.D.in computer science, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has an extensive publication record along with 22 issued and 3 pending U.S. patents. John N. Kornitsky, Vice President Marketing - Defense, Intelligence, and Aerospace Division
John Kornitsky has over 25 years in high technology, marketing, management, and engineering and is currently managing the marketing efforts of the Rapport DI&A Division. Mr. Kornitsky has a successful track record in marketing hardware, software and systems in the computing market to commercial and Government accounts. He created effective strategies for product marketing, channel marketing and marketing programs plus successful product management from concept through design, development and delivery. Mr. Kornitsky has technical expertise in electronic imaging, digital video, semiconductors, computer architecture and data networks. His experience includes marketing positions at Entridia, NEC, Intel, Philips, and Terayon plus engineering positions with Lockheed, Fairchild and Varian.
Mr. Kornitsky has a Masters in Business Administration and a Masters in Computer Science from Santa Clara University, plus a BS in electrical engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology. He has held various high level security clearances. Curtis Kent, Vice President Engineering - Defense, Intelligence and Aerospace Division
Curtis Kent has over 25 years experience in electrical engineering. Curtis began his career as a design engineer of software and hardware (analog and digital) products. His success catapulted him into lead technical roles which further transitioned into executive positions. Curtis has led R&D efforts in defense industries (both DOD and non-DOD) as well as at commercial companies in a variety of fields including reconfigurable computing, embedded systems, EDA software, semiconductor chip design, algorithm development, signal processing, telecommunications (audio, video and data) and satellite systems. Curtis has worked at several startups (Chameleon Systems, Voyan Technology, CPU Technology and Vindicator) as well as at several large corporations such as ARGOSystems, ESL, Lockheed, GTE, Cadence, Harris and Spectra Physics. Curtis has an MSEE degree from San Jose State University in California and a BSEE degree from DeVry in Arizona. He has also held multiple high level security clearances. Jason Wong, Manager of Strategic Accounts - Commercial Products Division
Jason has extensive international experience working with customers all over the world, in particular with Chinese, Japanese and US companies. Prior to Rapport, Jason was with Altera Corporation for almost eight years. Jason held different roles in Technical Program Management and Strategic Accounts Management during this time. Besides working with key customers, he also managed the OBSAI and CPRI programs at Altera, resulting in a significant market share gain. Previous to Altera, Jason was the Team Leader of Applications Engineering at Tanner EDA supporting it's full suite of PC based EDA tools. Jason started his career in Hong Kong in Product Marketing. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Master of Science in Engineering Management from the University of Southern California.
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