Management Team

Kapil Shankar, CEO
Kapil Shankar, founder and CEO of SiliconBlue, has over 20 years experience in semiconductors and programmable logic. At Xilinx, he spearheaded low cost, consumer FPGA Spartan products. At Lattice, Kapil created ISP, in-system programmable CPLDS. He also worked at AMD's programmable logic division. Kapil has 16 patents in programmable logic. He has a MSEE & MSCS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY and has done his BSEE from the Delhi University.

Andrew Chan, Vice President, Engineering
Andrew Chan has joined us as Vice President Engineering. He has over 32 years of experience in semiconductors and 30 years in programmable logic. Prior to this he was the co-founder and Vice President, Engineering at QuickLogic. Andrew has 40 patents in programmable logic. He has also worked in MMI and AMD and has done his MSEE from the State University of New York & BSEE from the Washington State University.

Michael Hasley, Chief Financial Officer
Michael Hasley is responsible for managing finance and accounting functions at SiliconBlue. He brings 25 years of proven experience in growth company management, including CFO at BlueArc Corporation, CFO at Barcelona Design, and President of R&D Funding Corp. (venture investments). Hasley has an MBA with distinction from Northwestern University, and an AB from Kenyon College.

Denny Steele, Vice President, Solutions Marketing
Mr. Steele has over 20 years of industry experience, specializing in the use of programmable logic in high-volume, low-power, consumer electronic products. Before joining SiliconBlue, he held applications engineering and marketing positions at Altera, Xilinx and Philips Semiconductors. He has a BSICS degree from UC Irvine and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Dr. D. J. Wang, Vice President, Software Engineering
DJ Wang oversees all software development activities at SiliconBlue. Prior to joining SiliconBlue, he has held senior level R&D management positions at Mentor Graphics, and Chameleon Systems. He has worked on various EDA products such as RTL synthesis, formal verification and high-level synthesis while working for Verisity and Cadence Design Systems. Dr Wang received a PhD from University of Wisconsin and BSEE from National Taiwan University.

Rick Lain, Vice President, Asia Sales
Rick has worked in Asia for Actel and Xilinx for the last 15 years, most recently as Director of Asia Sales for Actel. He knows mobile markets, customers, and products extremely well. He has lived in both the US and Taiwan, and holds a graduate EE degree.

Jim Mulligan, Vice President, North America Sales
Jim has more than 25 years experience in the semiconductor industry. Most recently, Jim was the VP of Worldwide Sales at Achronix Semiconductor. Jim has held various executive management positions at Xilinx, Altera, and Advanced Micro Devices. Jim holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Lowell Technological Institute.