Ranjit Chandra 
Ranjit founded Gradient Design Automation in 2003. Previously, he was VP of technology at Magma Design Automation, where he focused on signal integrity, power and EM. He was a co-founder and VP of engineering of Moscape Inc., which was acquired by Magma in 2000. Rajit held key positions at Cadence Design where he developed tools for timing-driven designs and authored the industry standard format for timing data exchange (SDF). He worked as a performance verification team lead at Intel Corp. Rajit received his B.Tech and M.Tech in Radio Physics & Electronics from Calcutta University, India, and his PhD (EE) from London South Bank University, UK. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and was instrumental in re-forming the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Circuits and Systems chapter, serving as its first chair.