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About Us
Please take a few moments to get to know the people behind
Laflin Limited.
President & CEO
Rick Ader founded Laflin Limited in March, 2005. Having
spent nearly a decade assisting start-up to mid-sized companies
in the transfer of technologies in the area of Electronic Design
Automation (EDA) from the United States to Japan, Rick set up
Laflin Limited to make the technology transfer in both directions
to & from Japan & the Western world a more productive and prosperous
business endeavor.
From 2000-04, Rick was the General Manager of Sales & Operations
for the Japan and Rest of Asia territories at Monterey Design Systems.
Prior to Monterey, he held various management and engineering
positions at Summit Design and Toshiba (Japan). Bilingual in
Japanese and English, Rick received concurrent BSc degrees in
electrical and computer engineering, and computer science from
the University of Wisconsin.
Solutions Architect
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Tim Baldwin
has worked in the semiconductor and EDA industries for 15
years. Tim is largely responsible for the corporate strategy of Laflin.
Tim contributes in the areas of product and technical marketing and
promotion and technical sales for new EDA and IP technologies. In addition,
he provides services in product specification and testing and documentation
and technical writing. Prior to joining Laflin, Tim was director of the
product engineering team for Pyxis Technology, Inc., responsible for
developing and driving product requirements and specifications, testing
methodologies, and use models. Before joining Pyxis, he served as Senior
Technical Marketing Manager at Magma Design Automation. Tim has also held
positions as Director of Product Engineering at Monterey Design Systems,
Technical Marketing Manager at Cadence Design Systems and Applications
Engineer at Ambit Design Systems. Prior to joining the EDA industry, Tim
was a Product Development Engineer at Advanced Micro Devices.
Japan Business Development
Kazuhiro Honjo has over 18 years of EDA software sales in the
Japan semiconductor market. He brings a vast amount of experience
to the Laflin Japan sales effort, having delivered on such campaigns
as promotion of ModelSim® of Mentor Graphics to become the sign-off
simulator at NEC Electronics, and making multi-million dollar sales
of Virtual Silicon libraries to Japanese semiconductor companies, while
at Soliton Systems K.K.. He also has experience in the past decade of
sales and promotion of Silicon Compiler Systems, Compass Design
Automation, Summit Design, and Monterey Design Systems, all
successful EDA companies with 100s of users in Japan.
Kazuhiro is also the founder of his own company,  Inc. of Japan,
a company that provides aid to hi-tech, overseas start-ups through
introductions to the Japan semiconductor and consumer electronics market.
Kazuhiro has a Bachelor's Degree in Management of Technology from the
Kinki University in Osaka, Japan.
Taiwan Business Development
Joseph Ku has been working over 18 years in sales and field application
engineering for EDA, IP, and design service companies in the Taiwan
semiconductor market. His business accomplishments include successful
introductions of Model Tech (Modelsim®), Summit Design, Library Technologies
and Virtual Chips into the Taiwan market and an establishment of significant
customer base for each.
At Laflin, Joseph is responsible for business development in Taiwan. Joseph
has a Master's Degree in Electro-Optical Engineering from National ChiaoTung
University, Taiwan, and a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics Engineering from
National Ocean University, Taiwan.
Customer Engineering
Larry Ader has worked in research and development positions with
several computer engineering and EDA companies over the past twenty years.
His background includes experience in hardware design, performance analysis,
and design verification. More recently, while working with Cray Research,
Innoveda, and Provis Corporation, he has gained significant experience in
the development of EDA tools such as logic and fault simulators, design
debug tools and code coverage analysis tools.
With Laflin Limited, he is responsible for software
installation, licensing, customer training and support.
His purpose is to quickly get customers beyond any problems
they may have with tools that Laflin Limited provide.
His secondary responsibilities include computer, network, and
e-mail administration and website development.
Larry possesses an MSEE and BSEE, both from the University of Wisconsin.
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