
Dr. Raik Brinkmann
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Raik Brinkmann, co-founder of OneSpin Solutions, was named president and CEO in May 2012, with overall responsibility for leading the company and its business growth worldwide. He brings to this role more than 15 years of broad expertise in management, verification and industrial R&D, having served at companies in both Europe and the U.S.
Previously, as vice president of OneSpin's software development, he successfully turned the company's fundamental scientific and engineering innovations into state-of-the-art, award-winning EDA tools. Earlier, he was intimately involved in planning and implementing OneSpin's spin-off from Infineon Technologies in 2005. Prior to OneSpin, Brinkmann worked in the formal verification group at Infineon Technologies in Munich. Previously, at Siemens, he conducted industrial research projects on formal verification at the company's Corporate Research Labs in the U.S. and Germany. He began his career in the systems verification group at Siemens Public Communication Networks, and later focused on hardware emulation, formal verification and systems-on-a-chip design.
Dr. Raik Brinkmann holds a Diplom Informatiker (equivalent to a master's degree in computer science) from the Clausthal Technical University, Germany and a Dr.-Ing. (equivalent to a Ph.D. degree) from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.