As the Founder of Sage-N Research, David has over 30 years of business development, marketing and engineering experience. Before founding Sage-N Research , he was employed by Xilinx, Inc., the world leader in the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) industry where he headed the Strategic Marketing Group and successfully launched the Virtex-2 product family, after heading the IC Design Engineering Group in the CPLD Division. Before joining Xilinx, he was a Senior Design Engineer for Altera Corporation, as well as for the Research Laboratory of Fairchild Semiconductor. He is the inventor and co-inventor of 31 U.S. patents and numerous international patents, and holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.