Caspia Technologies simplifies the adoption of robust security practices into the demanding silicon development lifecycle, with offerings that include tools that fit in your EDA flow, physical assurance methodologies, as well as training and curriculum development for hardware security topics.
These offerings fit within our SoC development framework and leverage the latest GenAI technology to enhance a hardware security mindset and its necessary processes to ensure safe and secure products for customers and partners.
CASPIA GenAI TECHNOLOGY INFUSES EXPERT-LEVEL SECURITY VERIFICATION INTO EXISTING DESIGN FLOWS. NOW ALL DESIGN TEAMS CAN DEPLOY ADVANCED SECURITY WITHOUT THE NEED FOR A LARGE SECURITY TEAM.
CASPIA WAS FOUNDED IN 2020 BY TECHNOLOGY LEADERS WITH OVER 75 YEARS OF COMBINED EXPERIENCE IN SEMICONDUCTOR DESIGN, FABRICATION, TEST, AND IMPORTANTLY AI, SECURITY AND TRUST. THEY ARE BASED OUT OF GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA.
Leadership
Richard Hegberg
CEO
Jeremy Lee, PhD
VP OF ENGINEERING
Jim Zuidema
CFO
Fahim Rahman
CTO
Beau Bakken
VP OF PRODUCTS
Bill Earnshaw
COO
Founders
Mark Tehranipoor, PhD
CO-FOUNDER
ADVISOR
Waleed Khalil, PhD
CO-FOUNDER
ADVISOR
Farimah Farahmandi, PhD
CO-FOUNDER
CHIEF SCIENTIST:
SECURITY VERIFICATION
Navid Asadi, PhD
CO-FOUNDER
CHIEF SCIENTIST:
PHYSICAL ASSURANCE
Chairman
Dr. Walden C. Rhines
Walden “Wally” C. Rhines is currently president and CEO of Cornami, Inc. as well as Chairman of Caspia Technologies. Previously, he was CEO of Mentor Graphics for 25 years and Chairman of the Board for 17 years. During his tenure at Mentor, revenue nearly quadrupled and market value of the company increased 10X.
Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, Dr. Rhines spent 21 years at TI in various executive management roles. He has served on the board of directors for Cirrus Logic, QORVO, TriQuint Semiconductor, Global Logic, PTK Corp., SRC and as Chairman of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (five two-year terms). He is a Lifetime Fellow of the IEEE and has served on the Board of Trustees of Lewis and Clark College, the National Advisory Board of the University of Michigan and Industrial Committees advising Stanford University and the University of Florida.
He holds a BS degree in engineering from the University of Michigan, and an MS and PhD in materials science and engineering from Stanford University, a Master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University and an Honorary Doctor of Technology degrees from the University of Florida and Nottingham Trent University.
Advisory Team
Henry Potts
Mark Bapst
Gustavo Contreras
Brian Kelleher
Remembering Marc Corbacho
Marc served as our Chief Revenue Officer. His experience, leadership, and engaging style were felt through our organization and by our customers and partners as well.
We will all miss him.
Marc Corbacho – Rest in Peace, 2025
Richard Hegberg
CEO / Co-Founder
CEO, former CEO of three semiconductor start-ups Executive roles @ SanDisk/WD, Qualcomm, Atheros, Numonyx/Micron, ATI/AMD, VLSI Technology
Mark Tehranipoor, PhD
CO-FOUNDER, ADVISOR
Mark is the Department Chair & Intel Charles E. Young Chair in Cybersecurity at University of Florida ECE. He is a founding Director of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research and a former Associate Chair and Program Director at the University of Florida. Dr. Tehranipoor has authored 16 books and over 230 invited talks. He holds 22 patents and is a recipient of the IEEE, ACM, and National Academy of Inventors fellowships. His research focus is hardware security, electronics supply chain security, IoT security, and VLSI design
Waleed Khalil, PhD
CO-FOUNDER, ADVISOR
Waleed is Professor at The Ohio State University ElectroScience Laboratory. Dr. Khalil is the founding Director of the Circuit Laboratory for Advanced Sensors and Systems. He is Co-Director of the Air Force Center of Excellence for Enabling Cyber Defense in Analog and Mixed Signal Domain and The National MicroElectronics Security Training Center. Waleed spent 16+ years at Intel Corporation in the communication groups. He has authored three books, 100+ journal/conference papers, and holds 16 issued patents. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Farimah Farahmandi, PhD
CO-FOUNDER, CHIEF SCIENTIST: SECURITY VERIFICATION
Farimah is the Wally Rhines Endowed Professor in Hardware Security and Assistant Professor at the University of Florida ECE. Dr. Farahmandi is the Founding Director of the Silicon Design and Assurance Laboratory. She is Associate Director of the Florida Institute of Cybersecurity and Edaptive Computing Transition Center. Farimah has authored seven textbooks, 120+ journal/conference papers, and holds 12 patents issued/pending. She received the NSF Career Award (2024) and the SRC young Faculty Award (2022). Her research focus is hardware security verification, fault-injection & side-channel attack analysis, information leakage, post-silicon validation and debugging.