Gael Paul | Vice President, Innovation | Enclustra
Gael Paul is VP of Innovation at Enclustra, a leader in FPGA-based System-on-Module (SOM) technology, where he leads a multi-national team focused on developing cutting-edge hardware, software, RF, mechanical, and thermal solutions. With 25 years of experience in Semiconductors, Electronic Design Automation (EDA), and cloud technologies, Gael is a recognized expert in product architecture, chip design, and field experience. Before Enclustra, he served as CTO at Accelize, where he co-invented embedded Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology and led the development of the AMD-Xilinx AppStore.
Before Accelize, Gael was CTO at PLDA, overseeing the development of the QuickPlay platform, which revolutionized FPGA-based systems for software programmers. His previous roles included vice president of software engineering at Achronix, director of FPGA Synthesis Products at Synplicity, and senior design consultant at Cadence Design Services. Gael holds several patents in DRM, high-level synthesis, and asynchronous circuits and is the inventor of the IP Encryption scheme that became the IEEE 1735 standard. He earned his M.S.E.E., Summa Cum Laude, from ESIEE in Paris, in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin.
