Before joining Tabula, Dennis Segers served as president, CEO and director of Matrix Semiconductor, the pioneer in the design and development of three-dimensional integrated circuits. At Matrix, Dennis oversaw the transition of the company from the early technology feasibility phase to high volume production, culminating in the acquisition of the company by SanDisk in January, 2006. Before Matrix, Dennis served as the senior vice president and general manager of the advanced products group at Xilinx, where he built a multi-billion dollar business. Dennis oversaw the development and introduction of the Virtex family of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), the most successful programmable logic family in the industry's history. In April 2000, he was elected to the Xilinx board of directors. A 30-year industry veteran, Dennis began his career at Mostek Corporation as a product development engineer for Mostek's 16K DRAMs. He held a variety of management positions in circuit design, process technology, and product development in a wide range of IC businesses including memory, logic, and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs). In 1988, Dennis co-founded Summit Micro Circuits, a contract-design company for high performance memory. A graduate of Texas A&M University, Dennis is a member of the board of directors of the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA), as well as Synplicity, Inc.