Meet the Team
Dr. Furtek has broad experience in both hardware and software development with special expertise in multicore processors and functional verification tools and methodologies. He was among the pioneers in the area of formal verification (The MITRE Corporation and The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory). It was at these two companies that Dr. Furtek began a long-term mission to develop ground-breaking tools for full functional verification of digital systems.
During breaks in this effort, Dr. Furtek founded a field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) company (Concurrent Logic) whose technology has been licensed to Apple Computer, National Semiconductor, and IBM. Concurrent Logic was ultimately acquired by Atmel Corporation. He has also led pioneering efforts to develop new computing platforms based on reconfigurable, multicore architectures unrivaled in price/performance and energy efficiency (Interval Research, QuickSilver Technology and Rapport, Inc.).
Dr. Furtek’s 30+ years of experience have provided the foundation for his most recent accomplishment: solving the multicore programming problem, which has bedeviled computer science for the past 50 years.
Dr. Furtek holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s and doctorate in computer science, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has more than 30 issued U.S. patents.
Dr. Gentry brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in the field of cryptography and secure computation, enhancing Cornami’s mission to deliver real-time encrypted computing at scale.
Dr. Gentry is best known for his groundbreaking work in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), a quantum-secure technique that enables computations on encrypted data without exposing the underlying information.His innovations in this field have earned him numerous accolades, including:
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- The MacArthur Fellowship
- The Gödel Prize
- The ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
- Fellowship in the International Association of Cryptologic Research
- The ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
His career spans roles at prestigious institutions, including research scientist positions at the Algorand Foundation and IBM Research.
Tom Kais has worked in the financial sector since 1994. He began his career as a Financial Analyst at KAO Infosystems before joining Philips Components in 1998 as a BG Regional Sales Controller. In 2000, he became Director of Finance and Corporate Controller at Vertical Networks, Inc., and subsequently held the same role at Santel Networks, Inc. in 2001 and at NextG Networks in 2003.
In 2005, Tom was appointed CFO of Quantum 3D, followed by a CFO role at Ruckus Wireless in 2007. From 2010 to 2017, he served as CFO at Soft Machines. Since 2017, he has led his own CFO consulting practice, working with companies such as BanyanSecurity, Cornami, RADX Technologies, and several others. As a financial advisor, he has played a key role in helping these organizations scale and manage growth by translating the CEO’s strategic vision into actionable financial and operational plans. He has also guided ERP system selection and implementation, and helped define critical reporting requirements.
Tom earned an MBA from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University (1988–1990) and a BS in Finance and Accounting from Santa Clara University (1981–1985).
A dynamic leader with three decades of semiconductor industry expertise, Puneet Singh has a proven track record of successful product launches across the spectrum, from innovative startups to global corporations. His leadership has been instrumental in the commercialization of AI, mobile SoCs, servers, laptops, and PC hardware, software, and systems. Currently spearheading Hardware Engineering at Cornami, Puneet’s prior achievements include leading the productization of an award-winning Edge AI accelerator at MemryX, driving the success of over 500 million Snapdragon mobile phones at Qualcomm, and delivering key server and laptop products during his tenure at Intel. He earned his Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur and a Master of Science in Electronics and Computer Engineering from the University of Iowa.
Prior to Cornami, Mr. Franz was Vice President of IoT Engineering for Elyven Inc. There his responsibilities included selecting appropriate technologies, defining the architecture, setting strategy, and leading development. Franz has over 26 years of experience as a software engineer and executive manager of development teams, all in the realm of delivering high quality audio/video experiences to consumers. Franz also has experience with internet and embedded software development, 3D and 2D graphics technologies, network architecture design, Internet content delivery, and project management.
Previously, Franz served as Vice President of Engineering at Yesvideo where he developed products and solutions for legacy home content. He also served as Vice President of Engineering at Vidomi where he helped pioneer the market for MPEG-4 / DivX by developing high performance DivX encode and playback software. Additionally, Franz served as Vice President of Technology for Segasoft, where he managed multiple game development teams and assisted in the specification and development of the Sega Saturn game console, Sega 32X game console, and the Sega Dreamcast game console.
Denoid Tucker comes to Cornami from his success at TierPoint where he was charged with TierPoint’s technical vision, the alignment of technology deployment and corporate strategy. He directed the integration of technology into all TierPoint data centers; and provided leadership and management of the company’s Product Engineering and Sales Operations functions.
Tucker joined TierPoint through its 2014 acquisition of Xand, where he also served as CTO. Prior to Xand, Tucker held key technical executive roles at RagingWire Enterprise Solutions, overseeing the design and implementation of the company’s award-winning cloud platform.
Other leadership roles include Vice President of Technology at StrataScale, where he expanded the company’s service portfolio to include cloud hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions; and Photronics where he engineered enterprise-class IT systems and a global infrastructure that powered photo-masking processes for Motorola, AMD and other semiconductor manufacturers.