John Lofton Holt was a founder of Achronix in 2004 and held the title of Chairman & CEO until 2011 when he brought in Robert Blake as his replacement CEO.
Prior to Achronix, Holt founded and led S3, a management technology and venture consulting firm in Washington DC. Prior to this he worked as a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Booz Allen Hamilton. Holt started his career at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in 1989 and worked as a design engineer until 1997.
BS in Electrical Engineering from Princeton and an MS from Johns Hopkins.
