Michel Villemain, Ph.D. Founder & CEO
Michel Villemain has more than 15 years of experience in the semiconductor test and failure analysis equipment business.
Most recently, Michel was Vice President Marketing for the Circuit Edit and Mask Repair Division at FEI. Prior to that, he was General Manager of the CD-SEM Business Unit at KLA-Tencor. Michel started his career with Schlumberger (later NPTest), where he served in various technical and managerial capacities over 19 years, in Europe, Texas and California. He has served as General Manager for Schlumberger ATE Europe, Vice President Marketing of the Test Division, and for five years General Manager of the Probe Systems (IDS) Division.
Michel graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in France, and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Orsay University.
Frank Sauk Co-founder & VP Engineering
Frank Sauk has over 25 years experience in the semiconductor test and failure analysis industry.
Most recently, he was Director of Diagnostic Services and Member of Technical Staff at Credence. Frank was a founding member of SABER at Schlumberger where he initiated worldwide failure analysis services. In this groundbreaking division, he was key in establishing alliances and delivering results to foundries, design service providers and design houses.
Previously, Frank has contributed in technical and management roles in Massachusetts, Texas and California.
Frank has published a number of papers on electrical failure analysis and has been awarded two patents. He graduated from MIT with a MS and BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Richard Curtin VP Sales
Richard Curtin has more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor design automation industry.
Most recently, he was Vice President of Business Development for DAFCA, a start-up semiconductor intellectual property (IP) vendor targeting the post-silicon validation and debug needs of IDM and fabless chip design organizations. Prior to that, he held senior sales and marketing management positions with early-stage hardware and software companies in the EDA industry.
Richard has an MBA from Pepperdine University, an M. Eng EE degree from Cornell University, and a B.S. Computer Engineering degree from Boston University, and holds two patents in the area of chip design.
