Dr. Wayne Wei-Ming Dai founded VeriSilicon in August 2001 and has served as the chairman of the board of directors, President and Chief Executive Officer since then. Prior to VeriSilicon, Dr. Dai was the Co-Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Celestry Technologies, Inc., an EDA company, which was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2002. Prior to that, he was the founder, chairman of the board of directors, and Chief Executive Officer of Ultima Interconnect Technology, Inc., one of the predecessor companies to Celestry.

Dr. Dai was the founding Chairman of the IEEE Multi-Chip Module Conference, the founding Chairman of IEEE Symposium on IC/Package Design Integration and Co-Chairman of the Program Committee of the 2010 International Green Energy Forum. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems. He has published over 100 papers in technical journals and conferences and received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award from the President of United States in 1990. He was elected as one of the top ten venture-backed entrepreneurs in China in 2005, and elected as one of the 2005 top ten talents of science and technology in China. In 2007, he was honored with The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in China. He won The Executive of the Year of 2013 ACE Award, Hurun Industry Achievement Award 2014, The Innovator of the year, APAC of 2018 ASPENCORE World Electronics Achievement Awards, The "Leading Pioneer" in 2018 Shanghai Smart City Construction, The Contributor of the year of 2019 World Electronics Achievement Awards. He is currently the Executive Vice President of International Union for Science and Technology Innovation, the Vice President of China Semiconductor Industry Association IC Design Branch and the President of China RISC-V Industry Consortium.

Dr. Dai received his B.A. degree in Computer Science and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a professor in the department of Computer Engineering at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Wenqian (Emma) Shi is currently our Director, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of the Board of Directors. She was successively Financial Controller and Corporate Vice President since joining us in 2006. Before joining us, Ms. Shi was Finance Controller of Essentra PLC, a supplier of plastic and fibre products, from 2004 to 2006. Prior to that, Ms. Shi was a financial manager of Hewlett Packard Shanghai from 2001 to 2004. Ms. Shi worked at Ernst & Young Huaming LLP, a registered public accounting firm, as an auditor from 1998 to 2001.

Ms.Shi received a bachelor’s degree in international accounting from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Ms. Shi is a certified public accountant in the American state of Washington and is a member of the Chinese Institution of Certified Public Accountants.

David Jarmon joined VeriSilicon in 2016. He is currently our Senior Vice President, responsible for Worldwide Sales and Business Development. Prior to VeriSilicon's acquisition of the company in December 2015, David held the same position at Vivante Corporation. David has more than 30 years of experience in semiconductor design services and automation. Previously Vice President of Customer-Driven R&D at Cadence Design Systems, David has also played key sales leadership roles at successful startups, including VP of International Sales at Silicon Perspective, Managing Director of Japan Operations at Cooper and Chyan Technology, and as Consulting Executive at Cadence Design Systems, with services practices in Silicon Valley and Japan.

David is an active alumnus of the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas (BSEE 1983). David also received his Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Hawaii (MBA 1996).

Yang (Leo) Wang has served as Senior Vice President of Business Operation in VeriSilicon. Mr. Wang was successively Director of Application Engineering, Senior Director of IP Solution and Vice President of China Sales and Business Development since joining VeriSilicon in 2006, taking charge of a growth technical support team for China semiconductor customers, in addition to his responsibilities of business development for both IP licensing and IC design services in China. Mr. Wang has more than 20 years of experience in business and technical development in semiconductor IP, IC design services, embedded software, and wireless communication, which includes strategic and management positions in R&D, customer support, technical marketing and sales. Before VeriSilicon's acquisition of ZSP (DSP Division) from LSI Logic in June 2006, Mr. Wang established and led the application engineering team, as a manager of DSP solution engineering department of LSI Logic, to support China fabless customers and develop IP licensing markets in various segments including advanced wireless communication, multimedia, high-end audio/voice, industry control, etc. Prior to LSI Logic, Mr. Wang held R&D management position at LinkAir Communications, Ltd.

Mr. Wang received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Tianjin University and his master’s degree in business administration from Peking University of Post and Telecommunications.