Kevin Nesmith graduated from the University of Texas in Arlington in 1995. Kevin has worked with many companies in the semiconductor and EDA industry over the past 10 years while working at Si2 where he is the Chief Architect. Prior to Si2, Kevin worked as a programmer, CTO, and CEO in the financial industry where his software went on to be used by Spear, Leads, and Kellogg, Instinet, Schwab, and Goldman Sachs. He has over 19 years of experience writing for complex, realtime systems. Kevin leads many projects including the Si2 oaDebugging Suite and extending OpenAccess to integrate optoelectronic schema for the Silicon Photonics Technical Advisory Board. He is also directly involved with many other working groups and their activities. In his spare time, Kevin is an avid cyclist, runner, and swimmer competing in countless races including half and full marathons, and half and full Ironman Triathlons.