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Management Team

Ray Bulger, Co-Founder and CEO
Ray was managing director of Silicon and Software Systems (S3) for five years. He was responsible for European and Asian operations. Prior to that he was director of marketing and sales and helped diversify the company's international customer base. He joined S3 in 1987 and set up several areas of the company's silicon technology foundation. Previously he spent six years working in the US in Silicon Valley designing IBM mainframes and supercomputers. He holds honors engineering and maths degrees from Trinity College Dublin.
Dave Murray, CTO
Dave was formerly founder and head of Inoru before which he held senior engineering positions in Toucan Technologies and Silicon & Software Systems. He has focusd on SoC automation for most of his career and is regarded as a leader in SoC integration/verification space. He has written and presented several papers on these topics as well as running a blog called Integration Insights. Dave has almost 20 years of industry experience and has an honours BEng degree from the University of Limerick.

Norman Walsh, COO
Norman began his career with Silicon & Software Systems in Dublin where he worked with a number of high-profile customers on leading-edge design projects. He later took up a senior engineering and project management position with Toucan Technology, which was subsequently acquired by PMC-Sierra of Vancouver, Canada. Norman has almost 20 years experience in the IC Design industry and has been with Duolog since 2001.

Leo Blonk, VP Engineering Development
Leo has over 20 years experience in software product development. Before joining Duolog, he worked for FotoNation managing a multi-site, multi-discipline team of engineers and researchers in the development of advanced image processing software. Previously, he worked for Silicon & Software Systems where he project managed a number of embedded software developments for Set Top Box products. He has also held software development, applications and management positions at AND Publishing and Industrial Control Systems in the Netherlands. Leo holds a degree in computer networks and AI from the Dutch Open University.

Joe Hee, VP North American Sales
Joe has more than 20 years experience in the EDA and semiconductor industries. Prior to joining Duolog, he was VP, Business Development at siXis, an early stage, VC funded silicon packaging company. Prior to siXis, he worked at Synplicity for 10 years in various sales management roles including Director of Eastern US Area Sales. Before Synplicity, he held various sales and management positions at Synopsys during a time of rapid growth in the company. Joe has also held various sales management roles at LSI Logic and Texas Instruments. Mr. Hee holds a BSEE from Drexel University and MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Fearghal Hannaway, VP Sales, Verification Services
Fearghal has almost twenty years experience working in the semiconductor industry. Prior to Duolog, he worked in Sales and Applications roles in Silicon & Software Systems in Ireland and US. Previously he spent over 8 years in Texas Instruments in various Design, Applications and Program Management roles in UK, Sweden and France. He holds an honours BEng degree from Queens University, Belfast.

Brian Clinton, VP Worldwide Product Support
Brian has worked for almost 20 years in the semiconductor and EDA industries. He has a wealth of international experience having worked for NEC in Japan, TI in France and Parthus/Ceva Technologies in Ireland. He has authored numerous conference papers and has been granted US patents. Brian earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in electronic engineering from Trinity College Dublin and is currently completing an MBA from Dundalk Institute of Technology.

Cesar Matias, General Manager, Integration Services
Cesar has over 12 years of industry experience having worked in many different positions from IC design and verification to project management and sales. In 2007 he was a consultant at NXP in The Netherlands, where he drove a company wide change management project within the IP Quality Improvement Program. Previously he worked for National Semiconductor in Finland and Chipidea in Portugal in various design and verification roles. He holds an honours engineering degree from The University of Manchester, UK.

Niamh Reidy, Financial Controller
Niamh started her career with Allied Irish Banks. From there, she moved to California where she worked for Thomas A. Roberts, Inc., Consulting Engineers. Niamh was responsible for all financial matters during a period of rapid expansion, when the company grew from 4 to 48 employees. Niamh later returned to Ireland and was part of the founding team of Duolog Technologies in 1999. Niamh brings over 25 years of financial experience to the table.

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