Kem Stewart Vice President of Hardware Engineering SiCortex, Inc. Kem Stewart has 25 years of hardware development and manufacturing experience at five Boston-area startups: Alliant Computer, Stellar Computer, Thinking Machines, Virtual Machine Works, and Netezza. He has implemented or managed processor architecture, ASIC architecture and implementation, board and system architecture, design, and manufacturing. At Netezza, Kem was the hardware architect and at Virtual Machine Works, he was the Vice President of Hardware Engineering and Manufacturing. Prior to becoming Vice President of Hardware Engineering at SiCortex, he directed systems architecture, engineering, and manufacturing. Kem has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and holds a dozen architecture and circuit-design patents.