Zvi Or-Bach

Who is Zvi Or-Bach?

Zvi Or-Bach founded eASIC in 1999 and served as the company's first

CEO for 6 years. He achieved traction and validation for the No-NRE

ASIC products with 24 hours from RTL to tapeout, raising capital from

leading investors Vinod Khosla and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Buyers

(KPCB) in successive 3 up-rounds. Under Or-Bach's reign, eASIC won the

prestigious EE Times' 2005 ACE Award for ultimate product of the year

in the Logic and Programmable Logic category.

Or-Bach is also the founder of Chip Express Corporation (now

called Chipx) and served as the company's President and CEO for about

10 years, managing both the headquarters in USA and the subsidiary in

Israel, bringing the company to $40M revenue and to be recognized for 3

consecutive years as a high-tech fast 50 company. Or-Bach has been

leading innovative developments in fast-turn ASIC for over 20 years.

His vision led to the invention of the first Structured ASIC

architecture, the first laser-based system for 1 day semiconductor

customization and to the first Structured ASIC fabric at eASIC.

Prior to starting Chip Express, Or-Bach held engineering

management positions at Elbit Computers, Ltd., Israel (subsidiary of

Elron) and Honeywell (Lexington, Massachusetts). Or-Bach served in the

Israeli Defense Force (1975-1980) as Captain, in charge of Image

Processing development and Electro-Optical Systems.

Zvi Or-Bach received his B.Sc. degree (1975) cum laude in

Electrical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of

Technology, and M.Sc. (1979) with distinction in Computer Science, from

the Weizman Institute, Israel.

Or-Bach holds over 30 patents, primarily in the field of semi-custom chip architectures.