Eli Sternheim

Dr. Eli Sternheim is an Advisor at Silicom Ventures LLC and Venture Partner at Redwood Venture Partners LLC.
Dr. Sternheim worked at the Westinghouse R&D center before moving to Silicon Valley.
Here he has worked for a few startups, such as Trilogy, Zoran and Nexgen (later went public and was acquired by AMD).
In 1991 Dr. Sternheim co-founded interHDL, a software electronic design automation (EDA) company where he was the president and CEO.
He wrote the book "Digital Design and Synthesis with Verilog HDL" and served as the chairman of the Architectural Committee for Open Verilog International (OVI).
In 1998, interHDL was sold to Avant! corporation.
Since 1995 Dr. Sternheim has been investing in high-tech startups and currently holds a portfolio of a few dozen companies.
He serves on the advisory board of Odesk and RunTime Design Automation.
In 1999, he joined Redwood VP as a Venture Partner.
Dr. Sternheim received his B.Sc.
in EE from the Technion in 1969, and his M.Sc.
and Ph.D.
in EE from Carnegie Mellon University in 1971 and 1974, respectively.