Herb Winsted

Herb Winsted has over 35 years of experience in semiconductor and EDA companies leading worldwide production projects, new tools and methodology deployment, direct customer customer support, and project rescue missions. He has lead successful projects for companies such as Samsung, LG, NEC, Texas Instruments, Sanyo, SGS Thompson, Ricoh, Fujitsu, Panasonic, DEC, Toshiba, General Dynamics, HAL, Motorola, Xerox, Intergraph, HP, Agilent, and many more. He leads Semifore’s customer facing activities and project coordination.

Prior to joining Semifore, Herb provided worldwide sales and customer support for major accounts at Cadence Design Systems, Silicon Valley Research and Silvar-Lisco. He began his electronics career cutting Rubylith at a mask shop and quickly migrated to lead mask design at Advanced Micro Devices. He has held various CAD management positions at GEC Plessey Semiconductor and National Semiconductor.