Walden C. Rhines
Walden C. Rhines, 61, is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mentor Graphics, a leader in worldwide electronic design automation with revenue of $792 million in 2006. During his tenure at Mentor Graphics, revenue has more than doubled, growth rate since 1999 has been number one among the “Big 3” EDA companies and Mentor has grown the industry’s number one market share solutions in physical verification, design concept-through-functional verification and printed circuit board design.
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Gregory K. Hinckley
President
Hinckley serves as Mentor's president. Before Hinckley joined Mentor in January of 1997, he was senior vice president and chief financial officer of VLSI Technology, Inc. in San Jose, California. In the past he has held senior officer positions with Bio-Rad Laboratories and Raychem Corporation.
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L. Don Maulsby
Senior Vice President, World Trade
Don Maulsby joined Mentor Graphics in October of 1999. With over 28 years of industry experience in sales and general management responsibility, Maulsby has an extensive knowledge of technology markets and operations.
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Simon Bloch
Vice President and General Manager, Design and Synthesis Division
Bloch is responsible for Mentor Graphics’ field programmable gate array (FPGA) and Electronic System Level (ESL) design and synthesis products. Bloch joined the company in 2002.
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Don Cantow
Vice President, Global Accounts
Based in Mentor's Warren, New Jersey office, Cantow has been with Mentor for over six years in several sales management roles. Prior to his work at Mentor, Cantow spent 11 years with Texas Instruments in sales, marketing and sales management roles including Global Account sales management and Wireless Solutions marketing management.
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Jue-Hsien Chern
Vice President and General Manager, Deep Submicron Division
Jue-Hsien Chern joined Mentor Graphics as the vice president and general manager of the company's Deep Submicron (DSM) division.
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Marc Corbacho
Vice President, Sales, Americas
Based in Mentor's sales office in Waltham, Mass., Corbacho has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience with software, semiconductors and optical solutions. Most recently he was the vice president of sales and marketing for NetOctave, a developer of silicon-based network security solutions. Prior to that, he was the director of North America Sales, Geographic and Key Accounts for Lucent Micro Electronics, and has held sales and management positions with VLSI and Motorola SPS.
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Brian Derrick
Vice President, Corporate Marketing
Brian Derrick serves as the vice president of Corporate Marketing. Brian joined Mentor in 1997 as the marketing manager for Calibre and was instrumental in developing and executing the strategy that has enabled Calibre to become the industry-wide standard for physical verification. He played a key role in Mentor's acquisition of OPCT Inc. in 1998 and the successful integration of that technology into the Calibre product family, which has resulted in Calibre's Resolution Enhancement products also becoming the industry standard.
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Tom Floodeen
Vice President & General Manager, Customer Support Division
Tom Floodeen has over 28 years of experience in the electronics industry working with both hardware and software products. During this time he has held positions of increasing responsibility in the areas of technical training, field support, quality assurance, customer support, and consulting services. Floodeen is an expert in change management, and has a track record of achieving excellent results while moving teams through significant changes in strategic direction and structural organization. Prior to joining Mentor as General Manager
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Dean Freed
Vice President and General Counsel
Prior to joining Mentor Graphics in 1989, Dean Freed worked in the Seattle offices of Perkins Coie, the Northwest's largest law firm. He specialized in corporate and securities transactions. Freed holds a BS in economics and a law degree from the University of Oregon.
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Paul Hofstadler
Vice President, Worldwide Consulting
Paul Hofstadler serves at Mentor's Vice President of Worldwide Consulting. He brings over 20 years of EDA services, sales, and marketing expertise. In addition to his previous work at Mentor, Mr. Hofstadler has extensive domestic and international service organization and sales channel development experience through his positions at Xynetix (VP of International Sales), Silicon Metrics (VP of Services, Business Development, and International Sales) and 360Bridge Corporation (President and CEO). Mr. Hofstadler holds a BSEE degree from the University of New Mexico and a MSEE degree from the University of Arizona.
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Ethan Manuel
Corporate Treasurer
Ethan Manuel was Mentor’s director of financial planning and analysis for four years prior to his appointment as treasurer. He originally joined Mentor Graphics in November 1999 as senior financial analyst . Prior to that, he was a financial analyst at PacifiCorp.
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Maria Pope
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Maria M. Pope is the vice president and chief financial officer of Mentor Graphics. Pope, a seasoned executive with more than 20 years of financial and operational experience, is responsible for treasury, tax, accounting, internal audit, corporate development, and investor relations at the company. Additionally, she manages facilities and purchasing.
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Henry Potts
Vice President and General Manager, Systems Design Division
Henry Potts joined Mentor Graphics in March of 1999 as Vice President and General Manager of the Systems Design Division. Potts brings more than 33 years of experience in the electronic industry to his role at Mentor Graphics, including experience in IC & Systems development to serving as President and CEO of a venture capital funded startup.
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Sharron Rotty
Vice President, Human Resources
Sharron Rotty has twenty years of experience in business operations and human resources management. Before joining Mentor, she was the senior HR executive at 6,000-employee SOLA International Inc. Prior to that, Sharron was corporate controller and human resources manager for Z-Tech Companies. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Southwest Missouri State University, and an MBA from William Woods University.
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Joe Sawicki
Vice President & General Manager, Design-to-Silicon Division
Sawicki is the vice president and general manager of the Design-to-Silicon division. A leading expert in IC nanometer design and manufacturing challenges, Sawicki is responsible for Mentor's industry-leading design-to-silicon products, including the Olympus-SoC place-and-route system, the Calibre physical verification and DFM platform, and Mentor's design-for-test product line.
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Eric Selosse
Vice President & General Manager, Mentor Emulation Division
Most recently the general manager of Mentor's Meta Systems Divison, Selosse's responsibilities were expanded to include Mentor's emulation product offerings on a worldwide basis. Selosse is based in Mentor's office in Les Ulis, France.
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Ananthan Thandri
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Ananthan Thandri is the vice president and chief information officer (CIO) of Mentor Graphics. Before joining Mentor, Thandri was most recently at Oracle Corporation as vice president, Information Technology. At Oracle Thandri was responsible for the IT organization supporting the Server Technologies Division. Prior to Oracle, Thandri worked for Cadence Design Systems for eleven years as vice president, Information Technology.
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Hanns Windele
Vice President, Europe
Hanns Windele has worked for more than 20 years in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry. For the past 15 years he has held a variety of sales, marketing and management positions at Mentor Graphics with a proven track record of results . After finishing his master's degree in Electrical Engineering at Technical University Munich, Windele started as a sales engineer for Mentor Graphics in Germany.
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