Steering Committee
Program Committee
About Accellera

Leslie D. Spruiell
General Chair
VitalCom PR
les@vitalcompr.com
Les Spruiell has more that 20 years experience in marketing and developing high technology products in the Electronic Design Automation and Computer Graphics markets. He joined VitalCom in May 2000. Les majored in Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder and Colorado State University.
Stuart Sutherland
Program Chair
Sutherland HDL, Inc.
stuart@sutherland-hdl.com
Stuart Sutherland is an independent consultant who provides Verilog design consulting and training at companies throughout the world. He has more than 16 years of experience in hardware design and over 12 years experience with Verilog. Mr. Sutherland holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with an emphasis in Electronic Engineering Technology from Weber State University (Ogden, Utah) and Franklin Pierce College (Nashua, New Hampshire).
Janet Josselyn
Finance Chair
Niku Corporation
jjosselyn@niku.com
Janet Josselyn is currently the Business Marketing Program Manager for the Nanometer Analysis and Test business unit of Synopsys responsible for driving all BU business marketing programs. Prior to their merger with Synopsys in 1997, Ms. Josselyn held various marketing positions with EPIC Design Technology. Ms. Josselyn holds a Marketing Management degree from New Mexico State University.
Joe Gianelli
Publicity Chair
Synplicity Inc.
jgianelli@synplicity.com
Joe is currently the Channel Marketing Director at Synplicity, Inc. Joe has been in the EDA industry since 1986 in a variety of engineering, marketing, and sales roles from Daisy Systems, ECAD, Cadence Design Systems, Meta Software, Epic Design, Synopsys, and currently with Synplicity Inc.

Paul Menchini
General Chair Emeritus
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
mench@mench.com
Peter J. Ashenden
Program Chair Emeritus
Univ. of Adelaide
petera@cs.adelaide.edu.au
Kathy MacLennan
Conference Manager
MP Associates, Inc.
kathy@mpassociates.com
Dennis Brophy
Accellera Representative
Model Technology, Inc.
dennisb@model.com