Duncan McCallum, Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Before joining Cilk Arts as a cofounder, Duncan spent 10 years in the venture capital industry. He began his venture capital career at Flagship Ventures where he was a General Partner, before joining Bessemer Venture Partners where he ran the Boston office. Duncan was an early-stage investor and board member in 17 software and internet companies which have produced an aggregate market capitalization in excess of $1 billion to date. Prior to joining the venture industry, Duncan was at Haemonetics where he served as Assistant to the CEO, ran marketing for their largest division, and started a new service business. In his early career, Duncan was at Draper Laboratory where he was Senior Member of Technical Staff and Program Manager. Duncan holds a BS and MS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School.
Charles E. Leiserson, Chairman, Chief Technology Officer and Founder
Charles is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, member of the Theory of Computation research group in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and head of CSAIL's Supercomputing Technologies research group. His research centers on developing theoretical principles of parallel and distributed computing, especially as they relate to engineering reality. His research contributions include the divide-and-conquer method of graph layout, the retiming method for optimizing digital circuitry, the concept of systolic architectures, the fat-tree interconnection network, and the notion of cache-oblivious algorithms. Charles' textbook, Introduction to Algorithms, coauthored with Ronald L. Rivest, Thomas H. Cormen, and Clifford Stein, is the leading textbook on computer algorithms and the second most cited reference in all of computer science. Charles was network architect for the Connection Machine Model CM-5 Supercomputer manufactured by Thinking Machines Corporation and Director of System Architecture at Akamai Technologies, where he directly managed a 35-person engineering team that developed a worldwide content-distribution network that now numbers over 20,000 servers. He is a MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT, an ACM Fellow, and a senior member of IEEE and SIAM. Charles is on leave from MIT and works full-time at Cilk Arts.
Matteo Frigo, Chief Scientist and Founder
Matteo received his Ph.D. in 1999 from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. His dissertation received the 1999 George M. Sprowls award for outstanding doctoral dissertations in computer science at MIT. His paper "A fast Fourier transform compiler" was nominated one of the 50 most influential papers published in Programming Language Design and Implementation from 1979 through 1999. He is a coauthor of the FFTW library for computing Fourier transforms, for which he won the 1999 Wilkinson Prize (a prize awarded every four years) for Numerical Software. Prior to founding Cilk Arts, he worked at Biomedin designing a gas analyzer for clinical tests on lungs, at Vanu developing novel algorithms and techniques for software radios, at ITA Software developing a system for the distributed caching of airline availability data, and at IBM Research developing novel techniques for better exploitation of complex memory hierarchies.
Stephen Lewin-Berlin, Vice President of Engineering & Operations and Founder
Steve has held key roles in several successful startups, and has over 25 years of experience in Information Technology. As founder and CEO of Vireo Software (a Windows tools company), he guided the company from inception until it was acquired by Compuware Corporation. After the acquisition, Steve run a development tools business unit at Compuware's NuMega Lab in New Hampshire. Subsequently, he helped launch Lumigent Technologies, a company that provides database auditing tools, where he served as both Chief Operating Officer and VP of Engineering. Prior to his entrepreneurial work, Steve conducted research into operating systems and networks at the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT. Steve holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
Ilya Mirman, Vice President of Marketing
Prior to joining Cilk Arts, Ilya held key marketing and engineering roles at several hardware and software companies. Most recently as VP of Marketing at Interactive Supercomputing, Ilya headed up marketing, customer service and application engineering teams. Prior to joining ISC, Ilya was VP of Marketing at SolidWorks, the world's leading vendor of mechanical design software. In this role, Ilya helped establish SolidWorks as the standard in 3D mechanical design software, used by hundreds of thousands of engineers worldwide. Prior to that, he led the product development team at Corning-Lasertron to introduce a new line of high-speed laser transmitters for the telecom industry. Ilya holds a BSME from the University of Massachusetts, an MSME from Stanford University, and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School.