Steve Teig


Steve Teig currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of and was previously the CTO of Tessera and Xperi.
Prior to Tessera, Teig was the President and CTO of Tabula, where he invented Tabula’s Spacetime 3-Dimensional Programmable Logic Architecture. In 2012, Tabula was recognized with an Edison Awards, an American Business Gold Award, inclusion in MIT’s “TR50” list of the 50 most innovative companies worldwide, and as #3 in the Wall Street Journal’s “Next Big Thing” list of the most promising venture-backed startup companies. In 2011, Steve Teig was presented the World Technology Network’s IT Hardware Award and inducted as a World Technology Network fellow. Tabula shut down on March 24, 2015.
Prior to founding Tabula, Steve was CTO of Cadence Design Systems, having joined Cadence through its acquisition of Simplex Solutions, where he was also CTO. Prior to Simplex, he was CTO of two successful biotechnology companies: CombiChem and BioCAD. Earlier in his career, he developed foundational logic simulation and place-and-route technologies that continue to have significant influence.
Teig received a B.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University and currently holds over 333 patents.