Chip Downing

Senior Industry Marketing Manager, Aerospace & Defense
Chip Downing is the Senior Industry Marketing Manager for Aerospace and Defense at Wind River Systems, based out of the corporate office in Alameda, California. A 20-year veteran of the embedded systems industry and a pioneer in safety certification for commercial RTOSs, Chip previously was Vice-President of SCADE Sales for Esterel Technologies, selling a DO-178B and IEC 61508 model-based development environment. Chip has also worked at Validated Software, OnCore Systems, Mentor Graphics, Qualix Group and Ready Systems, marketing DO-178B and other high reliability solutions.