Larry Melling has more than 10 years of executive management experience in bringing technology to market for both hardware and software development. He joined Catalytic from Virtio Corporation, which provides system models for pre-silicon software development, where he held both marketing and sales management roles during his six-year tenure. Prior to Virtio, Larry was vice president of marketing at IKOS Systems (now part of Mentor Graphics Corporation), a leading provider of emulation and acceleration products for SoC verification, where he participated from startup stage through Initial Public Offering (IPO). He held a variety of increasingly important roles in design engineering, applications engineering, marketing and business development over a 14-year period. He started his career as a design engineer at Corvus Systems and Hewlett Packard. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University. |