Mike Jamiolkowski
Michael (Mike) Jamiolkowski was the founder of two successful startups (one IPO and one via merger) in the technical software space.
Most recently he was VP Business Development and Operations at Lam Research, the semiconductor capital equipment company in which his second company, Coventor, Inc., merged in 2017. Within Lam, Mike took on BD and operations responsibility for Lam’s Advanced Equipment and Process Control (AEPC) Group, which offered Control Products including sensors and ML software, metrology products, as well as Coventor products.
Mike was President and CEO of Coventor which he founded in 1996, initially licensing and successfully commercializing MEMS modeling software from MIT. Coventor identified a “Blue Ocean” opportunity in semiconductor process integration and used its 3D modeling expertise to develop SEMulator3D, a virtual fabrication platform which has changed the way semiconductor companies develop Logic, 3DNAND, DRAM processes. Coventor and Lam Research jointly saw strategic value in merging to offer its joint customers faster time to process solutions. This was an ideal outcome for the technology, team and investors.
In 1985, Mike was co-founder and VP Marketing and Business Development of Integrated Silicon Systems (ISS), which developed Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software. ISS was the first company to develop hierarchical physical verification software for advanced semiconductor designs. The company’s high growth and profitability lead to a successful IPO in 1994. Merged in 1996 for $285M, the ISS product line has evolved and is still offered by Synopsys, Inc.
Prior to ISS, Mike was a project leader at GE Microelectronics and an IC design engineer at Motorola.