Senior Management

Zak Bahrom, Chief Executive Officer
He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to starting up Exsedia, he was Director of Engineering at Knowledge Based Silicon Corporation, a U.S. company specializing in high-level EDA products. He architected a number of the company's groundbreaking technologies as well as spearheaded the company's technology roadmapping. Zak gained his research and development expertise at contract R&D firm, International Chip Corporation, where he realized nascent technologies into viable prototypes and products for Japanese electronics companies. He holds degrees in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.

Eriko Motoyama, Director of Corporate Strategies
She started her career writing and producing technical documentation for a contract R&D company in the U.S. After a stint as visiting editor at a Japanese technical documentation company, TOIN Corporation in Tokyo, she joined the company fulltime to help set up a U.S. branch in Atlanta, Georgia. She moved to Malaysia a few years later to join IT company Servis EDA as its corporate communication director. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tennessee.


Abdul Rahman Madeni, Senior Manager of Software Engineering
Prior to joining Exsedia, Rahman was attached to MEPS and S2 System Inc. His research interests include designing smart card systems, ATM networks for banking, e-commerce, and banking software development. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the National University Malaysia, MBA from University Malaysia Sarawak.


Technology Advisory

Board James P. Davis,
University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina, USA
is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina. His research interests are architecture and analysis methods for hardware and software systems design, and reconfigurable computing architectures using custom VLSI logic. He has been involved in the development of hardware and software systems in a number of industry segments for the past 25 years. During the 1990s, he held a number of senior management positions in start-up companies including: Knowledge Based Silicon Corp., involved in the creation of high-level design capture software for VLSI design, and delivery of VLSI chip. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering, in 1980 and 1981 respectively, and Doctorate in Computer Engineering in 1989, from the University of South Carolina.

Sunggu Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Pohang, South Korea
is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea. Prior to this appointment, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware, in the US. He was a visiting scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and his research interests include parallel computing using clusters, fault-tolerant computing and real-time computing. He received his Bachelor of Science in electrical and electronic engineering with the highest distinction from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, a Master of Science and a Doctorate degree from the University of Michigan in 1987 and 1990 respectively.

Nor Adnan Yahya, Malaysia University of Science and Technology
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
is currently an Associate Professor and the Head of the IT Program at the Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST). His career includes lecturing on Programming, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Programming Language Concepts and Paradigm, Digital Logic Design, Formal Methods, Software Quality, Logic and Inference Systems and Functional Programming. He was also researcher at Telekom R&D to develop simulation and IT Security-related software. His current research interests include emerging internet and web technologies such as Semantic Web, web services and web agents. Other interests include electronic design automation, software slicing, and game-based simulation systems. He holds a Bachelor degree in Mathematics from the University of Nevada, a Master and a PhD in Computer Science from Northwestern University.