Mark Himelstein

Before RISC-V International, Mark Himelstein was the President of Heavenstone Inc., which concentrated on Strategic, Management, and Technology Consulting providing hardware and software product architecture, analysis, mentoring and interim management. Previously, Mark started Graphite Systems Inc. (acquired by EMC), where he was the VP of Engineering and CTO developing large Analytics Appliances using highly integrated flash memory. Prior to Graphite, Mark held positions as the CTO of Quantum Corp., Vice President of Solaris development engineering at Sun Microsystems, and other technical management roles at Apple, Infoblox, and MIPS.

Mark holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Math from Wilkes University in Pennsylvania and a Master’s in Computer Science from University of California Davis/Livermore. In addition to publishing numerous technical papers and holding many patents, he’s the author of the book 100 Questions to Ask Your Software Organization.