Prior to joining Tabula, Alain Bismuth, a 20-year veteran of the semiconductor industry, was vice president of Altera’s HardCopy product group. In this role he launched the HardCopy product line, the most successful line of structured ASIC products to date. Previously, Alain managed Altera’s consumer, computer, and industrial business group, where he lead the rapid growth of Altera’s business outside of the communications market segment, particularly in new, high-volume consumer applications. Alain also led the definition and launch of Altera’s Cyclone FPGA family, the world’s first true low-cost FPGA product targeting high-volume consumer applications.Before joining Altera, Alain was at LSI Logic for almost 10 years, where he held various senior marketing and sales management positions. He led LSI Logic’s European sales organization in the computer and consumer segments, and moved to LSI Logic’s headquarters in Milpitas, California in the mid-1990’s. There he led the team that introduced the world’s first integrated DVD player/decoder chip and gave LSI Logic the top market-share position in this market. Alain started his career as a product engineer at IBM Semiconductor. Alain received an M.S.E.E. from Ecole Centrale, Lyon, France, and a Master of Sciences in solid-state physics from Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, France.