It’s with great pleasure that I’m able to announce Maheen Hamid, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Breker Verification Systems, is now a member of the Electronic System Design Alliance Governing Council.
Maheen Hamid
Maheen, a seasoned, accomplished executive, assumes the seat formerly held by Babak Taheri who was CEO/CTO of Silvaco. She brings more than 15 years of financial experience in deal structuring and operations management in diverse industries including wireless telecommunications, clean energy, health, and infrastructure projects in emerging markets. Prior to Breker, Maheen served in various roles in investment banking and management consulting and is an occasional contributor to different business journals and forums covering a broad range of topics related to management. She holds a BBA from North South University in Bangladesh and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
“I am delighted to be joining the governing council of this important organization at a key moment in its history,” Maheen is quoted as saying in the news release announcing her appointment. “As Breker has grown to become an established EDA company working with semiconductor companies in the area of test suite synthesis, we have gained a wealth of experience and I hope to bring this perspective to the council.”
Maheen will serve a two-year term that runs through 2023, along with:
- Aart de Geus, chairman and co-CEO of Synopsys, Inc.
- Dean Drako, president and CEO at IC Manage
- Aki Fujimura, D2S’ CEO
- John Kibarian, president and CEO of PDF Solutions, Inc.
- Prakash Narain, president and CEO from Real Intent
- Joe Sawicki, executive vice president of Siemens EDA
- Simon Segars, CEO of Arm, who serves as the Governing Council Chair
- Bob Smith, executive director of the ESD Alliance
Many readers know Breker Verification Systems as a chip design verification company founded in 2003 by Maheen and her husband Adnan Hamid. Specially, it provides Portable Stimulus solutions, a standard means to specify verification intent and behaviors reusable across target platforms.
