Jud Leonard Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) SiCortex, Inc. Jud Leonard brings 40 years of significant experience in applications development, operating systems, and processor design to SiCortex. His career has been characterized by a penetrating grasp of technical detail consistently applied and transmitted via his articulate leadership. Jud began his computing career while at Oberlin College, first on an IBM 1620, then a 360/44. He graduated to Digital Equipment Corporation where he contributed to the PDP-12, PDP-11, and PDP-10 software groups, wrote the microcode for the KL-10 and DecSystem-20 processors, led the microcode effort for the original VAX-11/780, and became an early advocate of RISC technology within the company. At Symbolics, he provided technical leadership for Sapphire, a RISC-like LISP machine. Jud's entrepreneurial aptitude led him to co-found three companies: Agile Systems (multiprocessor Lisp systems), TLW (where he provided contract VLSI design services to various semiconductor companies) and, most recently, SiCortex. Jud holds four U.S. patents in computer technology.