Board Director

Dr Graham Hellestrand is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of USA headquartered start-up Embedded Systems Technology Inc.

The company's tag 'videre quam esse' means 'to seem rather than to be' and is a play on an old Latin saying "(It is better) to be than to seem to be" - that is, simulation trumps physical engineering.

Dr Hellestrand was also the Founder, Chairman and inaugural CEO (1997-2004) of VaST Systems Technology.

Having created the company, he attracted staff and three rounds of venture capital and corporate funding and drove its market share, revenue growth and expansion in Japan, USA and Europe. During this period the company developed best-in-the-world technology and products for the engineering of complex embedded systems and was proud to win and support many global companies as customers.

He has published in excess of 100 referred papers in international conferences and journals and is the principal author of the first two patents that underlie VaST's world class technology.

He holds a Bachelor of Science, PhD and Exec MBA degrees from the University of NSW and a MBA degree from the University of Sydney.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE; Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia; and an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of NSW.

He has held a number of positions in the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society: 1992 General Chair of 1st APCCAS, Sydney; 1994-1998 & 2005-2006 Member, Board of Governors and ExComm; 1997-1998 VP Region 10, Assoc. Ed. of IEEE Xact. on VLSI; 2000 & 2003 & 2007 Nominations Cttee; 2001 General Co-Chair (with David Skellern) of ISCAS 2001, Sydney; 2005-2006 VP Regions 1-7; 2006-2007 Assoc. Editor of Transactions on Circuits & Systems II. He is also a member of IFIP Working Groups 10.2 (Embedded Systems) and WG 10.5 (Design and Engineering of Electronic Systems) and the ACM.

His past times include amateur geology (powered by his proximity to the San Andreas Fault), desert hiking, scuba diving, skiing, photography, reading and classical music.