Board of Directors

Accellera Systems Initiative is governed by its board of directors and managed by officers elected by the board.

 Directors

• Dennis Brophy, Siemens EDA
• Viraphol Chaiyakul, NXP Semiconductors
• Lu Dai, Qualcomm Inc.
• Aparna Dey, Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
• Laurent Maillet-Contoz, ST Microelectronics
• Deepak Manoharan, ARM
• Shiwain Kaul, Intel
• Alex Starr, AMD
• Swami Venkat, Synopsys

Officers and Leadership

• Chairman: Lu Dai, Qualcomm
• Vice Chairman: Dennis Brophy, Siemens EDA
• Secretary: (vacant)
• Treasurer: Aparna Dey, Cadence Design Systems
• Technical Committee Chair: Martin Barnasconi
• Promotions Committee Chair: Dennis Brophy, Siemens EDA
• IP Rights Committee Chair: Lynn Garibaldi, Accellera
• Executive Director: Lynn Garibaldi, Accellera
• Marketing Communications Manager: Barbara Benjamin, HighPointe Communications