Mar Hershenson
Mar Hershenson is an American electrical engineer, professor, and business executive in the electronic design automation industry and entrepreneur.
Education and work
Dr. Hershenson graduated with honors with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, Spain.[1]
She earned M.S. and Ph.D. (2000) from Stanford University.[1][2] Her graduate research involved application of convex optimization to analog circuit design.[2]
As a graduate student as Stanford, she was CTO and co-founder of Barcelona Design. Later she was CEO and a co-founder of Sabio Labs (2004-2007), which was acquired by Magma Design Automation, and eventually Mar Hershenson became Vice President of Product Development in the Custom Design Business Unit at Magma. (2008-2010)[2]
During 2002-2011 she was consulting assistant professor in electrical engineering at Stanford.[2] Since 2013 she is Founding Managing Partner at Pear VC [3] (founded as Pejman Mar[4]) and represents Pear on the Board of Directors of Solvvy, a startup developer of a customer support platform designed to answer incoming customer questions basing on machine learning.[5]
She was described as "one of the leading women in venture capital in the Bay Area".[4]
Awards and recognition
- 2011: Women of Influence Award by Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal [citation needed]
- 2010: Marie Pistilli Award [2]
- 2009: Top Ten Women in Microelectronics by EE Times [citation needed]
- 2002: MIT Technology Review’s TR100 Innovators under 35[6]
Personal
She came to the United States from Barcelona, Spain for a summer job and met here her future husband. Her native city gave the name to the company she co-founded.[3][6]
As of 2010[update] she's had three children.[7]
References
- ^ a b "MAR HERSHENSON"
- ^ a b c d e "Dr. Mar Hershenson to Receive Marie R. Pistilli Award at 47th DAC for Contributions to the Advancement of Women in EDA"
- ^ a b [/https://www.pear.vc/mar Mar Hershenson Founding Managing Partner]
- ^ a b "Mar Hershenson – Making Strides in Early Stage Venture Capital"
- ^ "Solvvy"
- ^ a b Maria Hershenson, 30, MIT Technology Review
- ^ "Entrepreneur, engineer, energy ... A Conversation: Dr. Mar Hershenson", by Peggy Aycinena
External links
- Mar Hershenson, the LinkedIn webpage