Dave is an accomplished, successful executive with over 20 years of experience in the EDA industry. Most recently Dave was at Cadence for over 7 years in a variety of executive roles. In his first role as General Manager of Cadence’s PCB business he drove Cadence to the worldwide leadership position in the PCB and IC Packaging markets. He was then promoted to Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, with responsibility for all of Cadence’s products and services and for the company’s strategic planning efforts. Dave was then promoted to Executive Vice President of Cadence’s Systems Business, which included the Silicon-Package-Board and Emulation solutions. Prior to Cadence, Dave was Group Vice President of Viewlogic’s Systems business. Dave began his career in EDA in 1983 at Racal-Redac, which was later acquired by Zuken. Dave spent six years living in Europe driving Racal-Redac’s worldwide product development and marketing activities. He was instrumental in merging Racal-Redac with Zuken, and in his last role was Managing Director of Zuken-Redac, responsible for all of the companies’ product development, marketing, sales and operations activities in Europe and North America. Dave earned a BS degree in computer engineering from Boston University.