Management Team

» A strong leadership with focus in R&D allows Binachip to remain competitive, develop new products, and establish new markets.

Binachip’s management team is made up of ambitious entrepreneurs and motivated engineers, with prior experience in commercial software startup and growth. Its leaders bring years of diverse experience and a history of success. Their expertise includes many years of industry and academic experience in EDA software tool development, hardware-software co-design, high-performance and parallel computing, and embedded systems design. Their strong background in research and development provides a competitive edge to continuously develop the most state-of-the-art technologies. Their experience contributes to Binachip’s innovative vision in business and creating technology and solutions for its customers around the world.

David Zaretsky is the CEO and co-founder of Binachip, and is responsible for setting the strategic vision for the company, business and product development, marketing, sales, partner alliances, and investor relations. He is an accomplished engineer, researcher, and published author with over 14 years of hands-on professional and academic technological expertise in the fields of electronic design automation, electronic system level design, parallel and distributed computing, embedded system-on-chip design, digital signal processing, and software compilers. He has many years of experience in EDA tool design and project leadership, and has been involved in the development of 5 high-level synthesis FPGA compiler technologies.  He is the primary architect of Binachip’s ESL tools, and is responsible for the product vision and planning. Throughout his career, David has served as the principal investigator for various SBIR and STTR government grants from the U.S. Army, DARPA,  NASA, and NSF.

Prior to working at Binachip, David held research positions Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has previously worked as a software engineer at Xilinx Research Labs, and was part of the initial software group that founded AccelChip, an EDA company that developed system-level electronic design tools to accelerate the chip design process.

David received B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from Northwestern University in 2000, and received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northwestern University in 2005 and 2001, respectively. David's Ph.D. research was related to the automatic translation of software binaries into hardware for SoC FPGA architectures, and the development of the FREEDOM compiler, which is the framework of the Binachip ESLerate tool. He has also worked on the MATCH (Matlab to RTL) and PACT (C to RTL) compilers, and has authored numerous conference and journal publications in these areas of research.

Prith Banerjee is the Chairman, Chief Scientist, and co-founder of Binachip. He is responsible for the strategic technical directions for the company and provides guidance to the development of the Binachip’s software tools. He is also currently the Senior Vice President of Research and Director of Hewlett Packard Labs.

Prith has a 23-year record as a research scientist, professor, and administrator. He served as Distinguished Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he led more than 100 faculty in six departments and eight research centers. Prior to that, he was the Walter P. Murphy Professor and Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He also served as the Director of the Computational Science and Engineering program and was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, ACM and IEEE and a recipient of the 1996 American Society for Engineering Education Terman Award and the 1987 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award.

During 2001-2002, Prith served as Founder, President, and CEO of AccelChip, which was acquired by Xilinx in 2006. Prith has served on the Technical Advisory Boards of many startup technology companies such as Atrenta, Calypto Design Systems, and Ambit Design Systems.

Prith's expertise is in electronic design automation tools, and compilers. He is the author of over 300 research papers in these areas, and is the author of a book entitled “Parallel Algorithms for VLSI CAD”. During his tenure as professor, he has supervised 35 Ph.D. and 42 M.S. students. Prith received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in August 1981, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in December 1982 and December 1984.