Altium Leadership

Henry joined Altium in April 2015 as Senior VP Enterprise Solutions. As a highly respected leader within the EDA industry and with a wealth of experience in high-quality PCB design solutions, Henry is pursuing his passion at Altium to deliver the next generation design solutions for Altium customers. In August 2015, Henry was promoted to the role of Chief Product and Operations Officer. More recently, Henry has been made Chief Sales Officer at Altium. In his new role as CSO, Henry is responsible for architecting Altium’s multi-product, multi-channel strategy. In particular, Henry is leading Altium’s efforts to optimize its sales channels. This includes bringing greater systematization to Altium’s unique transactional sales driving Altium Designer in the mainstream to building a solution sales channel to support Altium’s new agile enterprise product, Nexus.

Prior to joining Altium, Henry spent 16 years as the Head of the PCB Division at Mentor Graphics. Prior to joining Mentor in 1999, Henry served in a variety of positions in the IC and Systems development industry, including Senior Vice President at Hitachi
Semiconductor and Managing Director of Advanced Processor Lab at Motorola. Henry has managed the creation of CAD solutions as well as using these solutions at Schlumberger, TI, VLSI Technology, Motorola and Hitachi. Additionally, he has extensive M&A experience in addition to holding patents in the software, systems and semiconductor areas.

Henry holds a Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisiana.

Ted Pawela has recently been appointed as Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Altium, having served as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) since joining the company in October 2016. Prior to joining Altium, Ted served as Product Management Executive responsible for marketing at BIOVIA (a subsidiary company of Dassault Systemes).

Ted has extensive knowledge and experience in marketing at a leadership level and a strong technical background with broad functional experience in software companies.

As COO, Ted works closely with the CEO to drive brand and program management to successfully execute against Altium’s corporate goals in its bid for PCB market leadership and going beyond to bring about a transformation of electronics design. Ted is actively involved in marketing, M&A and partnership activities of Altium and strategy development.

Ted holds a M.S. Engineering Mechanics from Michigan State University, a B.S. Oceanographic Technology from Florida Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from IE Business School, Madrid, Spain.

Sergey Kostinsky has recently been appointed as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Altium, was continuing to hold the role of Head of Engineering, which he has held since May 2014. Sergey has 20 years of extensive experience at a senior management level in CAD software development and web-based technology. Prior to rejoining Altium as VP Engineering in 2010, as part of the Morfik Technology acquisition, Sergey served as Director, Product Development. Sergey was also one of the founding members of the Dream Company, a Ukraine component development company which was acquired by Altium in 2001. He is outstanding in creating, directing and managing complex software engineering projects and products, and has been the driving force behind Altium R&D.

Sergey is responsible for driving optimal performance in all aspects of our engineering efforts and leads a global team of high calibre engineers. In his role as CTO, Sergey is responsible for developing and shaping the technological direction of Altium to underpin the company’s bid for PCB market leadership and going beyond to bring about a transformation to electronics design.

Sergey holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics from the National Technical University of Ukraine.

Chris Donato was appointed VP Sales Americas in February 2014, after being at the forefront of the Altium USA sales efforts for 10 years. Most recently, Chris has served as Director Strategic Sales and has been the main driver in building our strategic sales team in the USA.

Chris has over a decade of sales leadership experience in managing sales channels and technological product sales in various industries. Chris is responsible for all sales in the Americas region, including strategic sales, direct sales, renewals and channel sales. He brings both high-energy and disciplined focus to the US sales organisation, reflecting his one-time military background and highly competitive nature.

Chris holds a Bachelor of Communication from Bridgewater University.

Matt Schwaiger was appointed VP Global Customer Success in August 2014. With 25 years of experience at Altium at the forefront of product management, support and sales Matt has a deep understanding of Altium's customers, our products and the EDA industry.

Matt is responsible for customer experience across all aspects of Altium's business. He ensures that customer value is a fundamental part of Altium's culture and at the heart of all that Altium does.

Matt is responsible for supporting our subscription business and is supporting the delivery of outstanding technical support that meets the needs of our customers.