Meet the team

Dave Hutton

CEO

Dave Hutton has spent over 30 years in sales and marketing positions in the semiconductor and wireless industries. Prior to joining Cissoid, he was Business Unit Manager at Aeroflex responsible for their PXI product range and spent a further 6 years at Picochip as VP of Worldwide Sales. Dave Hutton began his career as a design engineer. He spent nine years at Texas Instruments in Sales Management and Systems Marketing before moving to IDT, where he was European Sales Director. During his career he has also worked for European-based semiconductor IP start-ups Silaria and Siroyan, where he was Vice President of Sales and set up and ran the European sales operations of Pericom Semiconductor.

Pierre Delatte

CTO

Pierre Delatte is co-founder of CISSOID. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of high temperature IC design and technologies. He was previously with UCL Microelectronics Laboratory where he worked on the design of high-speed analog and RF IC's. Pierre Delatte holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Degree from the Université catholique de Louvain.

Etienne Vanzieleghem

VP Engineering & Operations

Etienne Vanzieleghem was with Alcatel-Lucent where he held several engineering management positions including DSL program manager, DSL end-user equipment engineering manager and telecom SW applications engineering director. Etienne Vanzieleghem holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Degree from Université catholique de Louvain.

Kamel Bounyar  

Finance & HR Director

Kamel Bounyar has over 13 years of experience in corporate finance, internal audit and risk management. After obtaining a Master's degree from Montpellier Business School, he began his career as a financial auditor in Big 4 companies, before taking up the position of head of internal auditing with an international manufacturing company. Kamel then worked for six years in the financial services sector as risk manager and finance manager.