Chip Downing selected to head US operations and worldwide SCADE sales
“We are very pleased to have Chip join Esterel Technologies,” said Esterel Technologies CEO, Eric Bant駎ie. Bant駎ie continued, “Chip is an experienced Sales and Operations Executive with more than 20 years experience in technology organizations including Mentor Graphics, Qualix and Ready Systems. Chip’s experience working with safety and mission-critical applications, including those that must adhere to strict standards such as the civilian avionics guideline DO-178B, are particularly important in supporting our worldwide SCADE tool sales.”
Most recently Vice President of Business Development at Validated Software Corporation, Mr. Downing’s responsibilities will include Chief Executive Officer for Esterel Technologies Inc., the US arm of Esterel Technologies, and head of worldwide sales of SCADE (Safety Critical Application Development Environment), the Esterel Technologies tool used by developers to create critical embedded software applications such as those for automated pilots, safety restraints and engine controls.
About Esterel Technologies
Esterel Technologies products and services solve the problems of high reliability embedded design creation, validation and verification. Esterel Technologies’ tools create unambiguous specifications that produce correct-by-construction, automated implementation in software and/or hardware. Today, SCADE Suite™ is the de-facto standard for the creation of safety-critical embedded software in the civilian avionics industry and SCADE Drive™ is the emerging standard for the creation of critical-embedded software in the automotive industry. Esterel Studio™ allows embedded hardware designers to create a golden specification model that can be automatically implemented in RTL, or C.
Esterel Technologies is a privately held company with headquarters in Mountain View, California USA, and Elancourt, France and offices in Germany, the UK and China. For additional information please contact the Esterel Technologies website at www.esterel-technologies.com.
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