Jake Wiltgen is a Solutions Director at Siemens, responsible for divisional strategy in Automotive, Functional Safety, Design for Test, 3DIC, Rad-Hard, and High Performance Compute markets across the digital verification technologies portfolio. Moreover, Jake serves as the co-chair of the Front-End Design Track for the Design Automation Conference (DAC) and is a primary representative for Siemens EDA in numerous automotive and functional safety standardization initiatives within Accellera and IEEE. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. Prior to Siemens, Jake held various design, verification, and leadership roles performing IC and SOC development at Xilinx, Paneve, Micron, and Broadcom.