Howard Pakosh

Current

President & CEO at ChipStart

Past

Director, NA Sales at SONICS, Inc.
Board Director at Elliptic Semiconductor
Director, Emerging Markets at Virage Logic

Eastern Area Director at Magma
Sales Director at Magma Design Automation
VP Sales & Marketing and Co-Founder at Xentec Inc.
Account Manager at Avant!
Country Manager at Synopsys
VP North American Sales at CAD TEAM
General Manager at Data I/O
Account Manager at Lynx Technologies
Sales Rep at Interfax Systems

see less...

9 more...

Education

George Brown College
Weston Collegiate

Recommended

21 people have recommended Howard

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Semiconductors

Websites

Howard Pakosh’s Summary

Senior executive with substantial experience in the semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) and engineering design automation (EDA) fields. A highly motivated leader with an emphasis on partnerships. Focused on strategic accounts with large, mutual upside.

Howard Pakosh’s Specialties:

25+ years sales experience in Semiconductor IP, EDA, and Design Services specializing in strategic selling, uncovering new opportunities, negotiating, and closing deals. Leads by example.

Howard Pakosh’s Experience

President & CEO

ChipStart

(Semiconductors industry)

April 1998 — Present (11 years 9 months)

About ChipStart

Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, ChipStart LLC (www.chip-start.com) was founded in 1998 with the mission to be a leading value-added reseller (VAR) of best-in-class engineering design automation (EDA) and semiconconductor intellectual property (IP) tools and solutions. The team has over 40 years expertise in all aspects of the semiconductor design cycle (concept to design implementation to GDSII mask generation).

Over the last year, there has been a significant rise to the cost of sales and support of EDA and IP ptoducts and solutions. As a result, small- to medium-sized developers of best-in-class solutions require a sales and support team closer to the customer. The intrinsic value ChipStart provides is better customer outreach and support, intimate territory knowledge, targeted on-demand marketing (TOM) capability and flexible pricing models.
Director, NA Sales

SONICS, Inc.

(Privately Held; Semiconductors industry)

December 2007 — October 2008 (11 months)

Sonics Inc.® is the premier supplier in the interconnect segment of the Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) market. Sonics offers SMART InterconnectTM solutions and Memory Management products that facilitate the rapid development of Systems on A Chip (SoC) for embedded systems markets. SMART Interconnect solutions combine advanced fabrics and optionally data flow services that replace the need for SoC developers to design, verify and maintain similar complex functions on their own.

By using SMART Interconnect solutions, SoC developers can also shift interconnect and intellectual property design and verification from the physical design to the architectural exploration phase of the chip development process.

The utilization of Sonics’ products has demonstrated repeatedly that SoCs can now be developed in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost when compared to architecting Interconnect solutions in house.
Board Director

Elliptic Semiconductor

(Privately Held; Semiconductors industry)

April 2005 — July 2008 (3 years 4 months)

Elliptic is dedicated to the needs of the security IP market. To serve this need well, Elliptic has expertise in semiconductor IP through its veteran SoC development team, and software IP that includes core interface software and stack development. Elliptic also invests heavily in standards activities including the IEEE, the IETF and industry forums as required to be sure our cores and software are fully compliant to the latest security standard in each of the markets Elliptic serves.

Many of Elliptic's competitors derive their IP from SoC designs making the design rigid and difficult to integrate. Elliptic designs its IP from the ground up making it fully adaptable to customers' needs. As the team knows SoC design, customers often leverage this expertise to help architect their designs to reach an optimum trade-off in performance, cost and power dissipation that is required to be successful in their target markets.
Director, Emerging Markets

Virage Logic

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; VIRL; Semiconductors industry)

May 2001 — October 2007 (6 years 6 months)

Virage Logic (NASDAQ: VIRL) is a global leader in embedded memory IP. To meet customer design goals with the highest level of quality, Virage Logic products are production tested, and optimized for area, power and speed. These products include embedded memory cores, which are critical components of communications, consumer and computer products including switches, routers, modems, cellular phones, set-top boxes, HDTVs, DVD players and PCs. In addition, the company offers software tools and custom memory design services.

Virage Logics customers include ASIC/custom SoC designers, fabless semiconductor companies targeting pure-play foundries, and semiconductor companies.

For more information, please visit www.viragelogic.com
Eastern Area Director

Magma

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; LAVA; Semiconductors industry)

1999 — 2001 (2 years )
Sales Director

Magma Design Automation

(Semiconductors industry)

1998 — 2001 (3 years )
VP Sales & Marketing and Co-Founder

Xentec Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Semiconductors industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years )

Company sold to InSilicon in September 2000.
Account Manager

Avant!

(Public Company; Semiconductors industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )
Country Manager

Synopsys

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SNPS; Semiconductors industry)

1995 — 1998 (3 years )
VP North American Sales

CAD TEAM

(Semiconductors industry)

1991 — 1995 (4 years )
General Manager

Data I/O

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; DAIO; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

1986 — 1991 (5 years )
Account Manager

Lynx Technologies

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

1983 — 1984 (1 year )
Sales Rep

Interfax Systems

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

1980 — 1982 (2 years )