Mo Movahed

MO Movahed is the GM for CSD division at Siemens, responsible for High-Level Synthesis and Verification, Low-Power Solutions and FPGA Synthesis.

MO has more than 35 years of products and business experience with broad background and expertise in design verification & implementation tools and methodology. Prior to joining Siemens EDA, he held various VP positions at Synopsys where he led Digital Verification products & business including VCS, VC Static, SpyGlass, VC Formal & Emulation Power in Verification BU, and StarRC, PrimePower Gate and RTL, and PrimeECO products in Digital Implementation BU.

Prior to Synopsys, Mo was SVP at Atrenta and led innovation of industry leading SpyGlass products & solutions and was heavily involved with the growth of Atrenta from both customer & business perspective resulting in successful acquisition by Synopsys in 2015.  MO has held leadership positions at Lattice Semi, Cadence, and Xerox Research Lab and holds 15+ US Patents. 

Ankur Gupta

Ankur Gupta is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Design Creation at Siemens EDA. This includes Test, Embedded Analytics, Digital IC design, Power Optimization, and Power Integrity Analysis. Formerly he was head of Product Management and Applications at Ansys, Semiconductor and Head of Applications Engineering for Digital Implementation & Signoff at Cadence Design Systems.

Ankur has 20+ years of experience in EDA, working on some of the industry’s most innovative Test, Digital Design, Implementation and Signoff products. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from Iowa State University.

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