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Interim Manager

Work Experience

Employment History:
2001+ Consultant, Los Gatos, California
11/01 onwards EDA and semiconductor consultant
• Providing strategy, marketing and engineering consulting to the electronic design automation and semiconductor industries

1998-2001 Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, California
5/01 to 11/01 Principal, Collaborative Product Design, Worldwide Services
• Provided electronic domain knowledge to the high-level consulting groups that consisted almost entirely of big-5 consultants without specialized knowledge
• Continued investor relations role
6/00 to 4/01 Corporate Vice-President Custom IC Product Line. P&L manager for the custom IC product line, Cadence’s largest.
• Managed $250M/year business, 400 people
• Produced best bookings quarter ever in Q4/00 at over $100M
• Coped with all 3 engineering managers departing for Internet startups in September 2000
• Managed startup of Superchip project; delivered first 2 phases on schedule
• Continued investor relations role
• In 1/01 merged Custom IC with digital design product line and ran marketing for all IC
6/99 to 6/00 Corporate Vice-President, Strategic Marketing.
• Ran strategic planning process for IC business
• Technical interface for investment analysts and the financial community
• Created whole-company messaging and positioning to complement the predominant by-product marketing
• Keynote speaker at industry and internal conference
9/99 to 5/00 Vice-President Engineering, Ambit Group.
• Merged Ambit engineering group into Cadence and then transferred to new manager
• Almost everyone in engineering group from Ambit is still in Cadence after 3 years

1998-1999 Ambit Design Systems, Santa Clara, California
9/98 to 9/99 Vice-President Engineering. Ran engineering of a startup company in synthesis competing frontally against Synopsys.
• Grew group from 10 to 25 people
• Successfully launched 2nd and 3rd versions of the product (BuildGates)
• Managed engineering of next-generation product, PKS, later shipped by Cadence
• Revenue built up from essentially zero to over $10M during this period
• Ambit was acquired by Cadence for nearly $300M

1982 to 1998 VLSI Technology and Compass Design Automation; San Jose, California and Sophia-Antipolis, France
12/97 to 9/98 President, Compass Design Automation.
• Took over as President at 24 hours notice and ran a $55M 300 person EDA company (a subsidiary of VLSI Technology)
• Produced 3 quarters of sequentially increasing revenue following 5 quarters of sequentially declining revenue
• Worked with bankers to orchestrate a road show and arranged for Compass to be acquired by Avant!
8/96 to 12/97 Vice-President, Strategic Programs (communications), VLSI, San Jose. Responsible for strategic programs in VLSI’s communication business, including M&A, technology licensing etc.
• Licensed CDMA technology from Qualcomm on very favorable terms
• Re-negotiated the microprocessor license with ARM and royalty buyout with Symbionics
• Acquired a French communications design company Comatlas
• Drove strategic planning in communications business
1/92 to 8/96 Vice-President, Product Operations, Compass, San Jose. Returned to U.S. and ran initially all engineering but eventually all engineering and product marketing.
• Responsible for 240 people
• Compass revenue grew from $25M to nearly $58M in this period
• Created two outsourcing programs in Moscow and Hyderabad, India to support legacy code
• Responsible for programs in almost all areas of EDA
• Delivered Pathfinder next generation place & route and Passport libraries to market
12/90 to 12/91 Vice-President, European Operations, Compass, France. Responsible for all operations in Europe including sales, marketing, support and engineering when Compass was spun out of VLSI.
• Created a 20 person European sales and FAE force for Compass
• Compass Europe grew from $11M to $14M in the period
12/86 to 12/90 Manager, European R&D, VLSI, Sophia-Antipolis, France. Created from scratch a European R&D presence for VLSI Technology.
• Hired the initial team, selected site, won senior management approval
• Relocated to France
• Grew the group to over 30 people from 15 different nationalities in this period.
• Projects in synthesis, library development, DSP, high-level design.
6/82 to 12/86 VLSI Technology. Various engineering positions initially as a programmer and later as a project manager.
• Created VLSI’s circuit extractor, part of the DRC, the DesignAssistant
• Personally created all of the data management, and managed all of the graphics, that underlay VLSI’s tools for another 10 years.

1978 to 1982 Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
6/78 to 6/82 University Computing Officer. Programming and lecturing.
• Lectured MSc courses on “Introductory Programming” and “Digital Communications”
• Created stand-alone departmental file-server

Education

Education:
1975 M.A. Cambridge University, England. Computer Science, first class honours.
1980 Ph.D. Edinburgh University, Scotland, Computer Science. Thesis: The Design of a Network Filing System.

Skills

Experience summary: Strong technical, business and strategic skills and experience. Broad, in-depth technical and business knowledge of ASICs and Design Automation (EDA). General Management and P&L experience from start ups to large enterprises including international. Held senior management positions heading Engineering, Marketing and Geographic Regions.

Languages

English, French

Other

US green card, UK citizen. Can move anywhere at short notice.

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