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Warren Savage • President & CEO

Prior to founding IPextreme, Mr. Savage created and ran the Star IP Program at Synopsys, where he provided an IP brokering function for major semiconductor companies. Prior to that, Mr. Savage was head of the Synopsys DesignWare engineering organization, where he introduced many design practices and quality measures, which eventually became part of the Reuse Methodology Manual, a seminal book on Intellectual Property design. From 1982-1995 he worked for Tandem Computers, and there developed an interest in advanced design methodologies around high reliability design. Mr. Savage began his career at Fairchild Semiconductor developing semiconductor test equipment. Mr. Savage is a well-known and published authority in the field of semiconductor intellectual property. Mr. Savage has a BS in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Pierre-Xavier Thomas • Vice President of Engineering

Pierre-Xavier Thomas is an industry value chain expert with experience at semiconductor, EDA and system companies. Before joining IPextreme, Mr. Thomas managed teams and was an architect for the design of SGI supercomputer hub chips, following a similar role at Clearwater Networks. Previously, he managed development for Synopsys' DesignWare IP library, including leading the team that developed and commercialized the first Synopsys Multimedia IP. Mr. Thomas started his career with ST Microelectronics as part of the team who designed the first MPEG Video Encoder System. Mr. Thomas holds a Diplome d'ingenieur from the University of Technology of Compeigne (UTC-France) and a Diploma d'Etude Appronfondie in Signal, Image and Speech Processing from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (INPG-France).

Michael Cizl • Director, Munich Design CenteR

Michael Cizl joined IPextreme from Synopsys, where he was most recently R&D manager, heading the development of a Bluetooth baseband controller IP core. Mr. Cizl held many positions at Synopsys, in Applications Engineering and in the Consulting group, where he became familiar with RTL-based design flows including design, verification, synthesis, static timing analysis, design for test, and design flow automation. One of his major projects was the redesign of the Infineon C166 microcontroller. Mr. Cizl started his career in 1992 as application engineer with Compiled Designs, a small start-up consulting company focused on VHDL modeling and simulation, which was later acquired by Synopsys. Mr. Cizl has a Diplom-Ingenieur in Electrical Engineering, from the Technical University of Munich.