Management Team The Mirabilis Design team is composed of veterans of electronics system-level design and systems engineering. All team members have advanced scientific degrees and MBAs.

Deepak Shankar is the CEO and has over 14 years experience in development, sales and marketing of system-level design tools. Prior to Mirabilis Design, Mr. Shankar was VP of Business Development at both MemCall, a fabless semiconductor company and SpinCircuit, a supply chain joint venture of HP, Cadence and Flextronics. Prior to that, Deepak spent many years in product marketing at Cadence Design Systems. Mr. Shankar has an MBA from UC Berkeley, MS from Clemson University and BS from Coimbatore Institute of Technology, both in Electronics and Communication.

Darryl Koivisto is the CTO and has over 25 years experience in as an Architect, Program Manager and modeling expert. Prior to Mirabilis Design, Mr. Koivisto held a number of roles with increasing responsibility and was most recently the Principal Modeling Consultant at Cadence Design Systems. Prior to Cadence Design System, Darryl held Project Management roles at Ford Aerospace where he managed large satellite projects for NASA. Previously, Mr. Koivisto was a Chip Architect at Signetics, now Philips Semiconductor, and I/O Architect at Amdahl. Mr. Koivisto has a DBA from Golden Gate University, MS from Santa Clara University and BS from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo.

Vaishnavi Shankar is the VP of Business Development. Prior to Mirabilis Design, Ms. Shankar held sales specialist positions at Cadence responsible for system-level design products. Ms. Shankar has introduced systems engineers solutions into a number of new markets including the test equipment and Wireless Communication. Vaishnavi has been recognized at Cadence as a consistent sales over-achiever and has developed extensive contacts in Japanese and semiconductor companies. Ms. Shankar has a MS and BS degree from University of Madras.

Tim Kerwin is the Senior Director of Sales and has over 25 years experience in sales and sales management of system-level design tools. Prior to Mirabilis Design, Mr. Kerwin was a Sales Director at CoWare Design managing many of the company’s strategic and major account relationships. Prior to that, Tim spent 12 years in the sales chain at Cadence Design Systems where he was consistently recognized as a sales over-performer in the Wireless Communications market. Mr. Kerwin has a BA from the University of Redlands and has done advanced studies at UC Irvine.