Guido Arnout

Dr Arnout has specific expertise with over 30 years in commercialising electronics technology from concept to product. He was the founding President and CEO of PowerEscape, which introduced the first tools for the development of low-power software executing on multicore devices. He was also founding President and CEO of CoWare, which pioneered system-level design tools for hardware-software co-design and the time-based licensing business model. Dr Arnout co-founded the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), an industry consortium to standardise a language for system level design, and as its President submitted the SystemC language to IEEE. He served as VP of Engineering and later senior VP of marketing of CrossCheck Technology. He co-founded and later became VP of Engineering of Silvar-Lisco, the first commercial EDA (electronic design automation) company.