Chris Giles is the Head of Product Management for Static and Formal Solutions. Chris comes to Siemens EDA from the user community, with decades of experience in IP and ASIC/SoC/FPGA R&D and management, with products deployed in consumer, military, compute and storage markets and at companies such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Honeywell, Seagate, Micron and LSI Logic. The author of 18 patents in areas such as hardware virtualization, security, processor architecture, synchronization schemes, and hardware prototyping, Chris received an MSEE from Stanford University in California and a BSEE from Rice University in Texas.