Deepak Mehta
President & CEO
Deepak is responsible for Spectral's overall vision, leadership & management. He has over 24 years of experience in the field of IC design engineering & Software targeted for Electronic Design Automation. Deepak started his career as a circuit designer at Silicon Compiler Systems (SCS) developing structured ASIC designs with special emphasis on memory and datapath compilers. SCS became part of Mentor Graphics corporation where he took on increasing management responsibility and built a world class engineering organization designing Memory Compilers targeted at various process nodes. At Virage Logic, as Sr. Director of Engineering, Deepak had overall responsibility of the High Density embedded memory product line which was the flagship product of the company. He was instrumental in building high level of automation in the design environment and quality assurance documents, such that complex memory designs could be developed with a high level of quality and efficiency. Deepak has a MS in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University and has 2 patents and several papers attached to his name.
William J. Palumbo
Chief Operating Officer
At Spectral, Bill has operational efficiency and product development responsibilites. Bill formerly served on the Executive Staff at Virage Logic Corp where he was VP & GM of High Density Memory, ran international design and software development teams in India, Armenia and the US as well as led engineering productivity initiatives. Bill also served a sales support role as executive sponsor for various major customer accounts. Prior to Virage, Bill was the Director of Engineering for the Physical Library Division of Mentor Graphics Corp which was later acquired by Virage. Bill built up the Physical IP business at Mentor to include foundation IP as well as worked on various Specialty IP and chip design projects. He also authored IP development CAD tools for Memory Compilation. He brokered several IP partnerships with 3rd parties to expand Mentor’s offerings. Before joining Mentor, Bill worked at several large semiconductor companies including RCA/GE/Harris semiconductor divisions in various capacities of IC Design and management. Bill has executive training in management and finance and holds a BSEE from Rutgers University.
