Simon Curry

Simon Curry has more than 40 years of experience in hardware and software design and verification. He spent 17 years as one of the founding professors of Computer Science at the University of Quebec before moving into the microelectronics and telecommunications industry, where he gained wide and deep experience while working on chip and SoC projects for firms such as Motorola®/FreescaleTM, Nortel (USA), Bell Northern Research, AviciTM and QualcommTM and on advanced design and verification technology for Cadence®.

This varied sequence of technical leadership positions in micro-electronics verification and system-level modeling exposed Simon to the foundations as well as the practical and pragmatic aspects of many of the systems that Sequitur is securing today.

Other Notable Roles

Simon has maintained his academic connections as a Ph.D. examiner and as a member of Canadian scientific peer review committees (NSERC, CFI, FCAR). He was a member of the Science Council of Canada and a member of the Technical Advisory Board of Statistics Canada for six years, as well as Executive Director of the Royal Society of Canada for the year before he moved to the USA.

Simon is also a long-standing member of Rotary International and participates on the boards of a number of charitable organizations.