Management Team
David Fritz
David Fritz is the Chief Executive Officer at Silistix
Previously, David served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for ARC International where he focused on developing the Asian market. David was previously founder and president of Production Languages Corporation, a pioneer in configurable processor technology, where he was awarded a US patent covering fundamental processes related to configurable processors. Production Languages Corporation was subsequently acquired by ZiLOG in 1999, and he then became vice president of ZiLOG's Advanced Cores R & D and ZiLOG's Development Systems Group.
John Bainbridge
Dr. Bainbridge is a founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Silistix.
Prior to founding Silistix, John Bainbridge was a research fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK. He received an MEng degree in Electronic Systems Engineering in 1996 and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Manchester University in 2001 for work on Asynchronous System-on-Chip Interconnect - CHAIN. CHAIN is the foundation of the company's interconnect fabric technology. His thesis, winner of the 2001 British Computer Society/CPHC Distinguished Dissertation Competition, described the design of the MARBLE asynchronous system bus used in the Amulet3i subsystem on the DRACO communications chip.
David Lautzenheiser
Prior to Silistix, David was in private practice assisting innovative small companies with company and product strategy issues and planning and execution of company and product launches. Previously he successfully launched new companies and products as Vice President of Marketing both at Sonics, an interconnect IP company and at LightSpeed Semiconductor, a pioneer in the field of Structured ASICs. David began his marketing career at Xilinx where he led the introduction of the first FPGAs and was instrumental in the growth of Xilinx throughout his thirteen years there in various marketing and sales roles. David holds a BSEE degree from Washington University in St. Louis.
Ian Barton
Ian Barton is the Managing Director of Silistix UK Ltd.
Most recently, Ian was at Zetex Semiconductors where he managed all integrated circuit development activities across sites in Oldham, UK and Munich, Germany. Previously he managed development teams at Motorola for the development of complex DSP, communications devices and FPGAs as well as managing Design Services. Ian began his technical career in processor design at Inmos followed by development and management positions at Praxis, Pilkington Microelectronics, and Fujitsu. In addition, Ian has created and led collaborations with customers, development partners and university research and training programs.
Ian Barton holds a B.Eng. Electronic Engineering from University of Liverpool.
Tim Smith
Tim Smith is the Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations
Prior to Silistix, Tim was VP of World Wide Field Operations at CoWare responsible for growing and managing the worldwide sales channel and infrastructure. CoWare Inc. is an EDA company specializing in ESL allowing fast architectural and embedded software development for very high gate count SOCs/ASICs in the mobile handset and consumer digital markets. Previously he successfully launched new companies and products as Vice President of Sales at Sonics Inc. an interconnect IP company and Triscend, Inc. a company specializing in Configurable system on Chip (FPGA + ARM processor & peripherals). Prior to this, Tim was Managing Director of Memec Design Services a global company specializing in IP and design services for Datacom, Telecom and Satcom applications. Tim holds a BSEE degree from Arizona State University in Tempe Arizona.
David Jackson
Dr. Jackson is the Director of Engineering at Silistix
David joined Silistix from LSI Logic where he managed the lead engineering team in the design of LSI logic's next generation of Digital Set-top Box solutions. Previously he held various management and development positions at Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe and Cogency Technology Inc. He also gained significant experience of Self-Timed design working as a researcher in the Computer Science department of the University of Manchester. David holds PhD, MSc and BSc degrees from the University of Manchester. His thesis was in the area of high speed, self testing circuits.