Uhnder CEO and leadership

Curtis Davis has 20 years of experience in Management, Engineering and Operations for multicore computing, networking, graphics and semiconductor markets. He was a Co-founder, President, and COO of Ageia Technologies, a major physics processing chip manufacturing and middleware company. Ageia was bought by nVIDIA, where Ageia’s technology is adopted in the entire GPU product line today. At nVIDIA, Curtis was the VP of PhysX and led the largest CUDA and OpenCL development teams in the world.

Prior to Ageia, Curtis was a Cofounder, CEO, and VP Engineering of Celox Networks where he managed very large teams building and deploying network aggregation switches from the ground up. He has worked in engineering and management roles in MinMax Technologies, MEMC and Caterpillar. Throughout his career he has focused on multicore and many-core high performance systems where superior performance is realized through algorithm development, and targeting software to specific architectures.

Joe was appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in March 2016. Prior to joining Altium, Joe served as CFO of Lattice Semiconductor, a NASDAQ listed company, in addition to holding senior executive financial leadership roles at Intel Corporation.

Joe has extensive knowledge and experience in technology companies, with particular expertise in financial management, M&A, post-acquisition integration, strategic planning, and global operations.

As CFO, Joe is a key member of the Altium leadership team and is at the forefront of business strategy execution - to deliver PCB market leadership by 2020. Joe is responsible for the management of Altium financial asset and resource optimization, and supporting the growth of the company while continuing to improve financial performance.

Sandeep Chennakeshu joined Uhnder as COO with 30 years of technical innovation and operational leadership, having launched cutting-edge products for several wireless standards, complex semiconductor chips, safety-certified embedded software, and security products. He has held executive leadership positions at Fortune 500 companies, including serving as EVP at AMD, President of BlackBerry Technology Solutions, SVP of Freescale Semiconductor, President of Ericsson Mobile Platforms, and CTO of Ericsson and Sony Ericsson.

Sandeep earned his Doctorate in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University and a postgraduate certificate in industrial management from the Indian Institute of Science. He is an IEEE Fellow and a named inventor on 180 granted patents.

Curtis Davis has 20 years of experience in Management, Engineering and Operations for multicore computing, networking, graphics and semiconductor markets. He was a Co-founder, President, and COO of Ageia Technologies, a major physics processing chip manufacturing and middleware company. Ageia was bought by nVIDIA, where Ageia’s technology is adopted in the entire GPU product line today. At nVIDIA, Curtis was the VP of PhysX and led the largest CUDA and OpenCL development teams in the world.

Prior to Ageia, Curtis was a Cofounder, CEO, and VP Engineering of Celox Networks where he managed very large teams building and deploying network aggregation switches from the ground up. He has worked in engineering and management roles in MinMax Technologies, MEMC and Caterpillar. Throughout his career he has focused on multicore and many-core high performance systems where superior performance is realized through algorithm development, and targeting software to specific architectures.