Board of Directors

Mark W. Adams has served as a director of Cadence since 2015. 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.

Susan L. Bostrom

Susan L. Bostrom has served as a director of Cadence since 2011 and previously served from 2001 to 2005. Ms. Bostrom served as Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, Worldwide Government Affairs, of Cisco Systems, Inc., a networking equipment provider, from 2007 to 2011. From 1997 to 2007, Ms. Bostrom served in a number of positions at Cisco Systems, Inc., including Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, Worldwide Government Affairs, Vice President of the Internet Business Solutions Group, and Vice President of Applications and Services Marketing. Ms. Bostrom also serves as a director of Anaplan, Inc., Nutanix, Inc., ServiceNow, Inc., and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

James D. Plummer, PhD

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.

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, PhD

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 Expert System S.p.A.

John B. Shoven, PhD

Chairman of the Board

Dr. John B. Shoven has served as a director of Cadence since 1992 and as Chairman of the Board since 2005. Dr. Shoven is the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics 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 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 has been a member of the faculty at Stanford University since 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.

Roger S. Siboni

Roger S. Siboni has served as a director of Cadence since 1999. Mr. Siboni served as Chairman of the Board of Epiphany, Inc., a software company that helped pioneer customer personalization solutions, from 2003 to 2005, and as President and Chief Executive Officer of Epiphany, Inc. from 1998 to 2003. Prior to joining Epiphany, Inc., Mr. Siboni spent more than 20 years at KPMG LLP, including as its Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Siboni also serves as a director of Coupa Software Incorporated and Dolby Laboratories, Inc.

Young K. Sohn

Young K. Sohn has served as a director of Cadence since 2013. Mr. Sohn has served as Corporate President and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung Electronics, a consumer electronics company, since 2012. Mr. Sohn also has served as a senior advisor at Silver Lake Management LLC, a private investment firm, since 2012. Mr. Sohn served as a senior advisor 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. Mr. Sohn also serves on the North American Executive Board for the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Lip-Bu Tan

Chief Executive Officer

Lip-Bu Tan has served as a director of Cadence since 2004 and as Chief Executive Officer of Cadence since 2009. From January 2009 to November 2017, Mr. Tan also served as President of Cadence. In 1987, Mr. Tan founded Walden International, an international venture capital firm, and has served as its Chairman since its founding. Mr. Tan also serves as a director of Aquantia Corp., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company and Schneider Electric.

Mary Agnes Wilderotter

Mary Agnes (Maggie) Wilderotter has served as a director of Cadence since 2017. Ms. Wilderotter served in a number of positions at Frontier Communications Corporation, a telecommunications company, including Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors from April 2015 to April 2016 and Chief Executive Officer from November 2004 to April 2015. Ms. Wilderotter served as Senior Vice President of the worldwide public sector in 2004 and Senior Vice President of worldwide business strategy from 2002 to 2004 of Microsoft Corporation, a software company. From 1997 to 2002, Ms. Wilderotter served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Wink Communications, Inc., an interactive telecommunications and media company. Ms. Wilderotter also served as Chairman from November 2012 to November 2014 and as Vice Chairman from October 2010 to October 2012 of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, and served on the President’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity from April 2016 through December 2016. Ms. Wilderotter also serves as a director of Costco Wholesale Corporation and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company and as Chair of the Board of DocuSign, Inc.