Chris Zegarelli

Chief Financial Officer

Chris has served as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Silvaco since September 2025. He brings more than 20 years of global finance leadership experience across the semiconductor industry, with expertise in investor relations, financing, financial reporting, forecasting, M&A, operations and strategic planning.

Before joining the company, he was the Senior Vice President of Finance for Infineon, which he joined after the 2023 acquisition of GaN Systems, where he was CFO. In this role, he led integration and strategic planning following Infineon’s acquisition of GaN Systems.

Prior to that he held CFO positions at Thermal Engineering International and Indie Semiconductor, where he raised significant debt and equity financing, enhanced financial systems, and supported rapid revenue growth. Preceding his time with indie, he held finance positions at Broadcom, Qualcomm, and Intel.

Mr. Zegarelli earned an MBA from the University of Michigan, a BA in Russian and International Economics from Middlebury College.

Ian Chen

Chief Revenue Officer

Ian Chen is the Chief Revenue Officer at Silvaco. He focuses on delivering a friction-free experience to Silvaco’s customers and capturing value and growth for Silvaco’s industry-leading technology. He leads marketing, sales, and field applications teams.

Prior to Silvaco, he led many successful efforts that monetized market discontinuities and emerging markets. He has served in technical and business leadership positions at multinational semiconductor companies, including Maxim, Freescale, Cypress, Texas Instruments, and in startups such as Analogix Semiconductor, Sensor Platforms, and IC Works.

Ian has been recognized as a Top Technologist to Watch by EE Times and was included in the list of “Top 50 Who’s Who in Sensor Technology” by Fierce Electronics. He holds more than 20 patents. He is also a Partner at Gimmel Entrepreneurial Fund.

He received his Bachelor and Master’s degrees in electrical engineering, as well as an MBA, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Candace Jackson

SVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Candace Jackson has served as Silvaco’s Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since September 2024. Prior to joining Silvaco, she was Deputy General Counsel of global fabless semiconductor design company Synaptics Incorporated from July 2021 to September 2024. She served as Associate General Counsel of aviation company Aerion Corporation from February 2021 until the company wound down its 20-year development operations in June 2021. In June 2015, Ms. Jackson joined the law firm of Mayer Brown LLP where she served as securities and corporate governance counsel and led capital raising transactions for public companies of all sizes. She left Mayer Brown from April 2016 through June 2018 to serve as Assistant General Counsel at US Foods Holding Corp. There, she led the company’s IPO and the exit of its controlling stockholders and established its securities and corporate governance function. She returned to Mayer Brown from September 2018 to February 2021 where she helped to build the firm’s Public Companies and Corporate Governance practice. Ms. Jackson began her career as a securities and corporate governance lawyer at financial services firm Primerica, Inc. (NYSE: PRI) where she served as Senior Attorney following its spin-out from Citigroup, and as an Associate at law firm Husch Blackwell LLP. Ms. Jackson has a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan, and a J.D. from the Emory University School of Law.

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Dr. Eric Guichard

SVP and GM of TCAD Business Unit

Eric Guichard, Ph.D., has served as our Senior Vice President and General Manager of our TCAD division since November 2012, and served as our Vice President of Applications from July 2008 to November 2012. From September 1995 to July 2008, Dr. Guichard served in various roles with Silvaco SA, formerly known as Silvaco Data Systems, one of our wholly-owned subsidiaries, including as an applications engineer. Dr. Guichard received a M.S. in material science and a Ph.D. in semiconductor physics from Instituto Politécnico Nacional de Grenoble, France.

Andrew Wright

SVP and GM of Semiconductor IP Business Unit

Andrew Wright leads Silvaco’s Semiconductor IP Business Unit. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President of R&D and New Product Introduction at Efabless. He previously served as Executive Vice President of New Product Development at Cypress Semiconductor where he led the company’s chip and IP design methodologies and oversaw the development of all Cypress IP and new products. He has also held executive roles at UltraSense and Waterbit. He holds Bachelors in EE from Trinity College, Dublin Ireland.

Jasvinder Singh

SVP and GM of EDA Business Unit

Jasvinder Singh is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Silvaco’s EDA Business Unit. He brings over two decades of leadership experience in electronic design automation (EDA), artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductor, and autonomous systems.

Throughout his career, Jasvinder has led global R&D teams and driven product, platform, and engineering growth at scale. Prior to joining Silvaco, he held senior leadership roles at Synopsys, SiClarity, and Cadence, where he spearheaded advancements in AI-driven verification, co-optimization, and cloud-enabled design platforms.

Jasvinder holds an M.S. in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, a B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering from Punjab Engineering College and has completed the Engineering Leadership Program at the University of California, Berkeley.

John Berg

VP of Business Development

John Berg leads business development across all of Silvaco’s product lines. He brings over two decades of leadership experience in quantum computing, semiconductor electronics, and photonics. John has a track record of productizing transformative hardware technologies and solving complex operational challenges. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Supply Chain at PsiQuantum. He has held senior leadership roles at American Semiconductor, Nantero, and Cypress Semiconductor. He holds an M.S. in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business and earned a S.B. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Farhad Hayat

VP of Global Marketing

Farhad Hayat is Vice President of Global Marketing chartered with defining, driving, and promoting Silvaco’s leadership in the TCAD, Custom IC and IP markets. Key areas of responsibility include strategic planning, corporate marketing, product marketing, market research, brand management, corporate communications, and ecosystem alliance programs.

Farhad joined Silvaco in January 2020 with 20+ years of experience in strategic marketing, corporate communication, product management and business development in Electronic Design Automation market. Most recently he led marketing at Synopsys for Analog/Mixed-signal simulation and Custom IC design products. Before that he held various senior marketing positions at LogicVision, Synopsys and Cadence.

Farhad holds a BSEE and MSEE from university of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Brian Bradburn

SVP of Global Operations

Brian Bradburn is Senior Vice President of Operations at Silvaco. He is responsible for the Development Operations, Quality, Licensing, and IT infrastructure across all Silvaco offices.

Since joining Silvaco in 2001, he has held numerous positions in the engineering and development divisions helping to drive the design, development and vision of the EDA products.

Prior to joining Silvaco, Bradburn implemented and managed software programs for various companies in the banking, nuclear and government sector. Bradburn holds a B.S. in Physics from the University of Salford.