Mike Bartley
Founder and CEO
Mike started in software testing in 1988 after completing a PhD in Math, moving to semiconductor Design Verification (DV) in 1994, verifying designs (on Silicon and FPGA) going into commercial and safety-related sectors such as mobile phones, automotive, comms, cloud/data servers, and Artificial Intelligence. Mike built and managed state-of-the-art DV teams inside several companies, specialising in CPU verification.
Mike founded and grew a DV services company to 450+ engineers globally, successfully delivering services and solutions to over 50+ clients . The company was acquired by Tessolve Semiconductors in 2020 and Mike worked at Tessolve as SVP.
Mike started Alpinum in April 2025 to deliver a range of start-of-the art industry solutions:
- Alpinum AI provides tools and automations using Artificial Intelligence to help companies reduce development costs (by up to 90%!)
- Alpinum Services provides RTL to GDS VLSI services from nearshore and offshore centres in Vietnam, India, Egypt, Eastern Europe, Mexico and Costa Rica.
- Alpinum Consulting also provides strategic board level consultancy services, helping companies to grow.
- Alpinum training department provides self-paced, fully online training in System Verilog, UVM Introduction and Advanced, Formal Verification, DV methodologies for SV, UVM, VHDL and OSVVM and CPU/RISC-V.
- Alpinum Events organises a number of free-to-attend industry events
You can contact Mike (mike@alpinumconsulting.com or +44 7796 307958) or book a meeting with Mike using Calendly (https://calendly.com/mike-alpinumconsulting).
