The Team | CacheQ

Clay Johnson (CEO)

Clay Johnson has decades experience in computing, FPGAs, security and development flow. He has a vision to enable the next phase of computing. Outside of technology he enjoys the outdoors and golf.

Dave Bennett (CTO)

Dave is a software guy who knows enough about hardware to be dangerous. He has dreamed of designing FPGAs with high-level languages for 30 years and finally, at CacheQ, he has seen that dream become a reality.

Richard Preston

Richard Preston, Drexel and Rowan alum who was born to engineer and would live on a cruise ship if he could. Richard spearheads CacheQ’s FPGA architecture and focuses on making FPGA based acceleration attainable to the masses.

Greg Duda

Greg Duda, Stanford alumn and avid world traveler, focuses on mobile integration and UX. He is passionate about creating a seamless user experience to help leverage CacheQ’s ground-breaking technology.

Frank Vernon

Frank Vernon, focuses on C compiler and LLVM integration. As a 30 year veteran of the industry, he is excited to be working on true next-generation developer tools.

Thomas Weis

Thomas Weis, an alumni of U.C. Berkeley, has come back to EDA after two decades in management. The unique CacheQ data models provide him a playing field to apply algorithms in new ways to circuit representations. Partitioning across devices is his current focus.

Mike Vigorita

My primary focus is hardware/software integration with our tools and the primary Windows developer.

David Leberknight

David has heaps of professional experience, including with this team building FPGA tech in Colorado. Since then he moved to New Zealand, taking the scenic route through 80 countries. David taught C++ and software design at university, has degrees from Cornell and CMU, and he worked as a Principal Solution Architect for the NZ government. Now his passion is making ML inference run fast.

Story Leavesley

Story Leavesley has many years of experience as a programmer and system architect. His current focus is the data model and code generators. When not in the office, Story has ridden his motorcycles and bicycles on 6 continents and in over 40 countries around the world.