Walden “Wally” C. Rhines is President and CEO of Cornami, Inc.   Previously, he was CEO of Mentor Graphics for 25 years and Chairman of the Board for 17 years. During his tenure at Mentor, revenue nearly quadrupled and market value of the company increased 10X. Prior to joining Mentor Graphics,…

Gordon “Gordie” Campbell brings a wealth of experience and expertise in founding, building and successfully launching a wide range of technology-based enterprises. He has repeatedly taken early-stage concepts from start-up to high volume revenue and profits, creating over $5 billion of market value in the process. Early in his career,…

Paul Master has over 30 years’ experience in high tech development and management in both start-up company environments and large corporations. His previous roles included positions as CEO, CTO, VP of Engineering, VP of Systems Engineering, VP of Architecture, and Director of Marketing among others. He has held positions in…

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. 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…

Tom Kais Prior to Cornami, Tom Kais served as CFO for Soft Machines, a semiconductor company focused on co-developing a VISC architecture-based processor and SoC products, which was acquired by Intel in 2016. Prior to Soft Machines, Mr. Kais was CFO of Ruckus Wireless, Inc., a provider of real-time visual…

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…

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…

Darlene Kindler has extensive experience in consumer electronics and semiconductor products.  She has repeatedly focused on emerging technologies and products in multiple companies beginning with Nintendo, who was re-entering the then, nascent video game industry – 3dfx Interactive, a 3D graphics chip – CHIPs & Systems, an adaptive chip – AdscapeMedia,…