Samir Palnitkar is the President of Jambo Systems, Inc., a leading ASIC design and verification services company and a Verisity Verification Alliance partner. He previously founded Integrated Intellectual Property, Inc., an ASIC company that was acquired by Lattice Semiconductor, Inc., and Obongo, Inc., an e-commerce software firm that was acquired by AOL Time Warner, Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; a Master's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle; and an MBA degree from San Jose State University, San Jose, California. He is a recognized authority on e, Verilog HDL, modeling, verification, logic synthesis, and EDA-based methodologies in digital design. He has worked extensively with design and verification on various successful microprocessor, ASIC, and system projects; worked on many e-based projects; and trained hundreds of students on e since 1997.