CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS - Key Persons
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- Member of the Audit Committee
- Director of Cadence
Dr. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has served as a director of Cadence since 1992 and was a co-founder of SDA Systems, Inc., a predecessor of Cadence. Dr. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has been a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley since 1976. Dr. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998 and received the Kaufman Award from the Electronic Design Automation Consortium in 2001, the IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Medal for his exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical engineering or related fields in 2008, the ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation in 2009, and the EDAA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. Dr. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli also serves as a director of KPIT Technologies Ltd.
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Audit Committee
- President
- IEEE Fellow
Dr. Anirudh Devgan has served as President and CEO of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. since December 2021, and has been a member of the Board of Directors since August 2021. He served as President of the company from 2017 to 2021, overseeing all business groups, research and development, sales, field engineering and customer support, strategy, marketing, mergers and acquisitions, business development, and IT. Prior to becoming President, he was Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Digital & Signoff and System Verification groups at Cadence.
Prior to joining Cadence in 2012, Dr. Devgan was General Manager and Corporate Vice President of the Custom Design Business Unit at Magma Design Automation. Previous roles include management and technical positions at IBM, where he received numerous awards including the IBM Outstanding Innovation Award. Dr. Devgan is an IEEE Fellow, has written numerous research papers, and holds several patents.
Dr. Devgan received a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and MS and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Anirudh Devgan is President and CEO of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., and is a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to becoming CEO in 2021, he was President of Cadence, before which he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Digital & Signoff and System Verification groups. Prior to joining Cadence in 2012, Dr. Devgan was Corporate VP and member of the executive staff at Magma Design Automation, and earlier held management and technical roles at IBM.
Dr. Devgan is widely recognized as one of the leading authorities in electronic design automation (EDA), and successfully pioneered the application of massively parallel and distributed architectures to create several industry firsts and most impactful products in the areas of SPICE simulation, library characterization, place and route, static timing, power and electromagnetics, among several others. He also drove the first common compiler architecture for emulation and prototyping platforms.
Dr. Devgan is an IEEE Fellow, has written numerous research papers, and holds 27 US patents. He has won several awards, including the prestigious Phil Kaufman Award for his extensive contributions to EDA as well as the IBM Corporate Award and IEEE McCalla Award. Dr. Devgan serves on the boards of the Global Semiconductor Alliance and the Electronic System Design Alliance.
Dr. Devgan received a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and MS and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
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- Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Digital and Signoff Group
- Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital & Signoff Group
Dr. Chin-Chi Teng has served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Digital and Signoff Group (DSG) since 2018. Prior to this role, Teng held senior leadership positions in research and development in digital implementation.
Dr. Teng joined Cadence in 2002 via the acquisition of Silicon Perspective Corporation and subsequently led various research and development groups. He brought deep technical knowledge and more than 20 years of industry and academic experience to his role as leader of the IC Digital group.
Dr. Teng holds a BS in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University and an MS and PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds seven patents, and has written many EDA papers, several deep learning papers, and a book, Electrothermal Analysis of VLSI Systems.
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- Member of the Audit Committee
- Director of Cadence
- Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Dr. James D. Plummer has served as a director of Cadence since 2011. Dr. Plummer has been a Professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University since 1978 and served as the Dean of the Stanford School of Engineering from 1999 to 2014. Dr. Plummer has received numerous awards for his research and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Plummer directed the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility from 1994 to 2000.
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- Lead Independent Director
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Director of Cadence
Dr. John B. Shoven has served as a director of Cadence since 1992 and as Lead Independent Director since 2021. He served as Chairman of the Board from 2005 to 2021. Dr. Shoven is the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics, Emeritus at Stanford University and served as the Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research from 1999 to September 2015. He is also a senior fellow and the Chair, Emeritus of the Steering Committee at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Shoven joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1973, serving as Chairman of the Economics Department from 1986 to 1989, director of the Center for Economic Policy Research from 1988 to 1993, and as Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences from 1993 to 1998. Dr. Shoven also serves as a director of Exponent, Inc. and the Mountain View Board of American Century Funds.
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- Senior Vice President and General Manager of the System Verification Group
- Senior Vice President and General Manager, System Verification Group
Dr. Paul Cunningham has served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the System Verification Group (SVG) since March 2021, running the division since 2018. His responsibilities include logic simulation, emulation, prototyping, formal verification, Verification IP, and functional debug. Prior to this role, Cunningham was responsible for Cadence's frontend digital design tools including logic synthesis and design-for-test.
Dr. Cunningham joined Cadence in 2011 via the acquisition of Azuro, a startup developing concurrent physical optimization and useful skew clock tree synthesis technologies, where he was a co-founder and CEO.
Dr. Cunningham holds a MS and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge in the UK.
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- Chairman of the Audit Committee
- Chairman of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee
- Director of Cadence
- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Arista Networks, Inc
Ita Brennan has served as a director of Cadence since March 2020. Ms. Brennan has served as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Arista Networks, Inc., a cloud networking solutions company, since 2015. Prior to joining Arista Networks, Inc., Ms. Brennan held a number of key finance roles, including as Chief Financial Officer of QuantumScape Corporation, from March 2014 to May 2015, and as Chief Financial Officer for Infinera Corporation, from July 2006 to February 2014. Ms. Brennan served as a director of Planet Labs PBC since August 2021, and served as a director of LogMeIn, Inc. (currently known as GoTo) from November 2018 to September 2020.
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Senior Vice President
- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer ( CFO
John Wall has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) since 2017. He is responsible for the company's overall finance, tax, and accounting functions, as well as business operations, enterprise data and analytics, investor relations, and global strategic sourcing. Wall also leads the Real Estate and Workplace organization, which manages over 50 Cadence sites worldwide.
Wall previously served as Corporate Controller and in other positions for more than 20 years, starting in our Dublin, Ireland office before moving to our San Jose Headquarters in 2015. At the beginning of his tenure with Cadence, Wall implemented the company's international corporate structure, and was instrumental in the creation of several of the company's sales models and its transition to a recurring revenue model.
Wall is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and holds an NCBS from the Institute of Technology, Tralee in Ireland.
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- Member of the Audit Committee
- Director of Cadence
- President of the Developer Division of Microsoft
Julia Liuson has served as a director of Cadence since 2021. Ms. Liuson has served as President of the Developer Division of Microsoft since 2021 and previously served as Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division since 2012. Ms. Liuson has served in several technical and executive roles since joining Microsoft in 1992, and currently sets technology and business strategy, as well as leads the development of products that include Visual Studio, .NET Framework, and developer platform services for Microsoft Azure. Ms. Liuson was the first woman promoted to Corporate Vice President of Development at Microsoft, and is a role model and champion of improving diversity and inclusion in STEM-both at Microsoft and through her charitable work. In 2019, Women in Technology International inducted Ms. Liuson into the Women in Technology Hall of Fame.
Karna Nisewaner - Chief Legal Officer, Secretary, VP
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- Corporate Secretary
- Corporate Vice President
- General Counsel
- Secretary
Karna Nisewaner has served as our General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since September 2022. Nisewaner is responsible for Cadence worldwide legal operations, covering matters such as corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, commercial transactions, employment, export compliance, government affairs, intellectual property, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and stock administration. Prior to this role, she was Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Cadence where she led many key functions in the legal department.
Prior to joining Cadence in 2011, Nisewaner held in-house counsel roles at Intuit and IBM and was in private practice at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett, and Dunner, LLP focused on intellectual property.
Nisewaner received her BSE in civil engineering and operations research from Princeton University and her Juris Doctor degree from UCLA Law School.
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- Chairman of the Audit Committee
- Director of Cadence
Lewis Chew has served as a director of Cadence since March 2020. Mr. Chew served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Dolby Laboratories, Inc., an audio, voice, and imaging technology company, from 2012 to 2021. Mr. Chew served as Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of National Semiconductor Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of semiconductor components, from 2001 to 2011. Prior to joining National Semiconductor Corporation, Mr. Chew was a partner at KPMG LLP, an accounting firm. Mr. Chew serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Arista Networks, an industry leader in cognitive cloud networking solutions for large data center and campus environments. For nearly 10 years, Mr. Chew served as a member of the Board of Directors of PG&E Corporation, an energy-based holding company.
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- Executive Chair of the Board of Directors
Lip-Bu Tan has served as Executive Chair of the Board of Directors of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. since December 2021 and has been a member of the Cadence Board of Directors since February 2004. He served as CEO of the company from 2009 to 2021, and as President from 2009 to 2017. He also serves as chairman of Walden International, the venture capital firm he founded in 1987, and is the founding managing partner of Walden Catalyst Ventures. Prior to joining Cadence, Tan was Vice President at Chappell & Co. and held management positions at EDS Nuclear and ECHO Energy.
He is a member of The Business Council and serves on the boards of directors of Intel Corporation, Schneider Electric SE, Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd., and Green Hills Software. He also serves on the Board of Trustees and the School of Engineering Dean's Council at Carnegie Mellon University and on the University of California, Berkeley's Engineering Advisory Board. Tan was the recipient of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)'s 2022 Robert N. Noyce Award and the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA)'s 2016 Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award.
Tan received a BS from Nanyang University in Singapore, an MS in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the University of San Francisco.
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- Member of the Audit Committee
- Director of Cadence
Mary Louise (ML) Krakauer has served as a director of Cadence since 2022. Ms. Krakauer retired as executive vice president, chief information officer of Dell Corporation, a global information technology company, in January 2017. Prior to that, she served in various executive positions at EMC Corporation, a global IT infrastructure company, which she joined in 2008, including executive vice president, chief information officer in 2016; executive vice president, business development, Global Enterprise Services during 2015; and executive vice president, Global Human Resources from 2012 to 2015. Ms. Krakauer also held executive general management roles at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Compaq Computer Corporation, and Digital Equipment Corporation. Ms. Krakauer also serves as a director of Mercury Systems, Inc., DXC Technology, and Proterra Inc.
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- Chairman of the Audit Committee
- Chairman of the Compensation Committee
- Director of Cadence
- President and Chief Executive Officer of SMART Global Holdings, Inc
Mark W. Adams has served as a director of Cadence since 2015. Mr. Adams has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of SMART Global Holdings, Inc., a compute, memory and LED solutions provider, since August 2020. Mr. Adams served as Chief Executive Officer of Lumileds Holding B.V., a light engine technology company, from February 2017 to February 2019. Mr. Adams served as President of Micron Technology, Inc., a semiconductor solutions company, from February 2012 to February 2016. From 2006 to February 2012, Mr. Adams served in a number of positions at Micron Technology, Inc., including interim Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, and Vice President of Digital Media. Prior to joining Micron Technology, Inc., Mr. Adams served as Chief Operating Officer of Lexar Media, Inc. in 2006 and as Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Creative Labs, Inc. from 2002 to 2006. Mr. Adams also serves as a director of Seagate Technology plc and SMART Global Holdings, Inc.
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- Chief Revenue Officer
- Senior Vice President
Neil Zaman serves as Chief Revenue Officer and has been Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations (WFO) since 2015. As Chief Revenue Officer, Zaman is responsible for the Sales, Services, Field Engineering, and Customer Support teams that manage customer relationships around the world, driving customer success via the Cadence Intelligent System Design strategy. Prior to this role, he held various leadership positions in WFO, driving initiatives to strengthen the company's relationship and grow business with the top North American strategic accounts.
Prior to joining Cadence in 1999, Zaman held key positions at Phoenix Technologies and IBM.
Zaman attended SUNY Stony Brook and then California State University, Hayward, where he earned his BSc in finance.
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- General Manager
- Senior Vice President
- Senior Vice President and General Manager, Strategy and New Ventures
Nimish Modi serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Strategy and New Ventures and is responsible for corporate strategy, corporate and strategic marketing and industry standards. Modi also heads New Ventures and leads the Molecular Sciences Group which includes the OpenEye Scientific business, and is also responsible for Cadence Cloud and Mergers & Acquisitions. Prior to this role, he was Senior Vice President of research and development for the System & Software Realization Group at Cadence where he had responsibility for products and solutions in the areas of systems design and verification, package and board design, hardware/software co-development and system verification.
Prior to joining Cadence in 2006, Modi spent 18 years at Intel Corporation, where he was most recently a vice president in the Enterprise Platforms Group with responsibility for the company's server CPU development.
Modi holds a BE in electrical engineering from the University of Bombay and a MS degree in computer engineering from Virginia Tech.
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- Senior Vice President
- Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources
Tina Jones has served as Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources since 2007, leading the team and operations around the world. Jones previously served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel. In that position, she advised the company on employment-related issues, policies, and practices, and oversaw litigation ranging from intellectual property and securities matters to commercial disputes.
Prior to joining Cadence in 2003, Jones was a litigator and employment counselor with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
Jones received her BA in political science from Stanford University and her Juris Doctor degree from UCLA Law School, where she served as an editor on the UCLA Law Review. Jones then clerked on the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
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- Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Custom IC
- Senior Vice President and General Manager, Custom IC & PCB Group
Tom Beckley has served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Custom IC and PCB Group (CPG) since 2018, including responsibilities for IC Packaging and System Analysis. Since his joining Cadence in 2004, the group has commercialized multiple next-generation design technologies in analog, mixed-signal, RF, photonics, and wafer-level advanced packaging, and expanded into system analysis and circuit verification.
Beckley joined Cadence via the acquisition of Neolinear, a technology spin-out of Carnegie Mellon University, where he served as President and CEO. Prior to Neolinear, Beckley was head of the Systems Division at Avant! Corporation, President and CEO of Xynetix, and held engineering and management positions at Harris Corporation and General Motors.
Beckley received his BS in mathematics and physics from Kalamazoo College and an MBA from Vanderbilt University.
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- Chairman of the Finance Committee
- Director of Cadence
- Senior Advisor at Samsung Electronics
Young K. Sohn has served as a director of Cadence since 2013. Mr. Sohn has served as a senior advisor at Samsung Electronics, a consumer electronics company, since 2021, as a founding managing partner at Walden Catalyst Management LLC, a venture capital firm, since November 2021. Mr. Sohn previously served as Corporate President and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung Electronics from 2012 to 2020. Mr. Sohn also served as a senior advisor at Silver Lake Management LLC, a private investment firm, from 2012 to January 2021, and at Inphi Corporation, a provider of high-speed mixed signal semiconductor solutions, from 2012 to 2013, and as President and Chief Executive Officer from 2007 to 2012. Prior to joining Inphi Corporation, Mr. Sohn served as President of Agilent Technologies, Inc.'s Semiconductor Group from 2003 until 2005, as Chief Executive Officer of Oak Technology, Inc. from 1999 until it was acquired by Zoran Corporation in 2003, and in executive positions at Quantum Corporation from 1992 to 1999, including co-President and General Manager.