Synopsys Inc Unternehmenskultur

Dr. Aart J. de Geus is a co-founder of Synopsys, Inc., and serves as its Chairman of the Board of Directors and Co-Chief Executive Officer. Since 1986, Dr. de Geus has held various positions at Synopsys, including President, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Senior Vice President of Marketing, and has served as a member of its board of directors. From 1982 to 1986, Dr. de Geus was employed by the General Electric Company, a global infrastructure, finance and media company, where he was the Manager of the Advanced Computer-Aided Engineering Group. He has been an Independent Director of Applied Materials, Inc. since July 24, 2007.

Mr. John F. Runkel Jr., also known as Rick, has been General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Synopsys Inc. since May 19, 2014. Mr. Runkel served as a General Counsel and Secretary at AMO Manufacturing USA, LLC since January 2001 and also served as its Senior Vice President of Business Development. He served as an Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Affymetrix Inc., from October 2008 to March 31, 2013 and served as its Secretary until March 31, 2013. He served as a Senior Vice President of Business Development of Visx Inc. Mr. Runkel served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Intuitive Surgical Inc. from January 5, 2006 to December 14, 2007. Mr. Runkel joined Intuitive Surgical from VISX, Inc., a leader in laser vision correction technology. He served as Vice President at AMO Manufacturing USA, LLC since January 2001. Mr. Runkel served as Vice President of Visx Inc. Prior to joining VISX, Mr. Runkel was a partner in the law firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, where he practiced law for 17 years and served as its managing partner for its San Francisco office. He serves as Member of the Board of Directors of Encompass Funds. Mr. Runkel received his law and Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mr. Joachim Kunkel has been an General Manager of Solutions Group at Synopsys Inc. since September 2009 and served as its Senior Vice President. Mr. Kunkel served as Executive Vice President at Synopsys Inc. since September 2009 until July 25, 2017. He served as General Manager of Systems Group at Synopsys Inc. since September 2006. Mr. Kunkel served as Vice President of Synopsys, Inc. since September 2006. Mr. Kunkel served in a number of senior positions at Synopsys, including Vice President of Engineering of the Solutions Group from August 2003 to September 2006, Vice President of Marketing of the IP and Design Services Business Unit from May 2002 to August 2003 and Vice President and General Manager of the System-Level Design Business Unit from October 1998 to May 2002. He received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Aachen University of Technology in 1984.

Mr. Andreas Kuehlmann, Ph. D., serves as the General Manager of Software Integrity Group at Synopsys Inc and served as its Senior Vice President until July 25, 2017. Mr. Kuehlmann served as Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Coverity, Inc. He served as Vice President of Research & Development at Coverity, Inc. since October 6, 2010. Most recently, he served as a Cadence Fellow and Director of Cadence Research Laboratories, where he led advanced technology development and drove Coverity, Inc., system and software verification strategy. In addition, he has an appointment as Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley and serves as the President of the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA). Prior to Cadence, he was part of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. His work on functional equivalence checking was key to the development of IBM's high-end processors and was later broadly adapted by the EDA industry. Mr. Kuehlmann received the Dipl-Ing. degree and the Dr.-Ing. habil Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology at Ilmenau, Germany and is an IEEE Fellow.

Mr. Hasmukh Ranjan has been Chief Information Officer and Corporate Vice President at Synopsys, Inc. since May 1, 2017. As CIO, Mr. Ranjan leads the Information Technology (IT) team and has responsibility for all facets of IT, including strategy, applications, infrastructure, security, support and execution. This includes global installations of SAP-based application infrastructure and integrated IT landscape, an engineering infrastructure consisting of 300,000 compute cores, 40 petabytes of storage, seven major data centers and 120+ field offices around the world that are secured with industry standard tools and practices. Mr. Ranjan serves as Group Director, ECS of Synopsys Inc. Mr. Ranjan served as Member of IT Council of VirtenSys Ltd. since July 2008. He joined Synopsys in 1997 and has risen through the ranks to the Corporate Vice President and CIO position. During Hasmukh's tenure at Synopsys, he has achieved a 'Top 500' supercomputing rank for Synopsys and leveraged High Performance Computing technology for EDA. He also oversaw the implementation of GRID computing for engineering, lead the charge for Synopsys to support and embrace multi-core technology, a Distributed Processing Library used in many of Synopsys' tools and also developed strategic vendor partnerships. He led several corporate initiatives for new license and revenue model implementations, M&A integration and process transformations. He is also the driver for the Machine Learning and Cloud initiative at Synopsys. He earned his bachelor's in Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, his master's in Computer Science from Northeastern University and his MBA in Management from Northwestern University.

Mr. Manoj Gandhi has been General Manager of Verification Group at Synopsys Inc. since August 2000 and served as its Executive Vice President until July 25, 2017. Mr. Gandhi served as Senior Vice President of Synopsys Inc. He served as Vice President and General Manager of the Verification Tools Group of Synopsys Inc. from July 1999 to August 2000. He served as a Vice President of Engineering at Synopsys Inc. from December 1997 to July 1999. He holds a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Dr. Fu-Hwa Ko, also known as Howard, has been the General Manager of Silicon Engineering Group of Synopsys Inc. since May 2008 and served as its Senior Vice President since May 2008 until July 25, 2017. Dr. Ko served as Executive Operating Officer of Avant! Corp., since July 2001. From February 2001 to July 2001, Dr. Ko served as Avant! Corp.'s General Manager of the Mixed Technology Division and from March 2000 to February 2001 served as Head of the System Product Line. From November 1996 to March 2000, Dr. Ko served as Vice President of Engineering at Analogy, Inc., before its acquisition by Avant! From November 1995 to November, 1996, Dr. Ko served as Analogy Inc.'s Director of Software Product Engineering. From June 1995 to October 1995, Dr. Ko served as the Engineering Director of Analog and Mixed Signal Simulation and Modeling for Mentor Graphics Corporations' IC and Mixed signal Division and from July 1993 to May 1995, he served as the Engineering Director for the Simulation Technology Division and Analog and Mixed Signal Division. From December 1988 to June 1993, Dr. Ko held various engineering management responsibilities at Mentor Graphics Corporation. In prior employment, Dr. Ko held various technical and management positions at Shiva MultiSystems, Simucad, HHB and Cadnetix Corporation. Dr. Ko holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University of Taipei, Taiwan and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Mr. Sudhindra Kankanwadi, also known as Sujit, has been the Principal Accounting Officer, Vice President and Corporate Controller of Synopsys Inc. since September 1, 2015. Mr. Kankanwadi joined Synopsys in March 2010 as Accounting Director. Prior to Synopsys, he had served in several roles and as Senior Manager, in the Audit practice of KPMG LLP in Mountain View, California and India since 1997. Mr. Kankanwadi holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree specializing in Accounting, Finance and Auditing. He is an active status Certified Public Accountant, licensed in California and a Chartered Accountant from India.

Ed Bard serves as the Vice President Business Operations, Solutions Group of Synopsys Inc. Ed started at Synopsys Inc in November of 1995. Ed currently resides in the Portland, Oregon Area.