Leadership Team
Cadence invests in technology innovation and achieves operational
excellence, under the guidance and leadership of some of the brightest
minds and most experienced executives
Executive Leadership

Anirudh Devgan, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer

Anirudh Devgan, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Anirudh Devgan has served as President and CEO of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. since December 2021, and has been a member of the Board of Directors since August 2021. He served as President of the company from 2017 to 2021, overseeing all business groups, research and development, sales, field engineering and customer support, strategy, marketing, mergers and acquisitions, business development, and IT. Prior to becoming President, he was Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Digital & Signoff and System Verification groups at Cadence.
Prior to joining Cadence in 2012, Dr. Devgan was General Manager and Corporate Vice President of the Custom Design Business Unit at Magma Design Automation. Previous roles include management and technical positions at IBM, where he received numerous awards including the IBM Outstanding Innovation Award. Dr. Devgan is an IEEE Fellow, has written numerous research papers, and holds several patents.
Dr. Devgan received a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and MS and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Tom Beckley
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Custom IC & PCB Group

Tom Beckley
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Custom IC & PCB Group
Tom Beckley has served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Custom IC
and PCB Group (CPG) since 2018, including responsibilities for IC Packaging and System
Analysis. Since his joining Cadence in 2004, the group has commercialized multiple
next-generation design technologies in analog, mixed-signal, RF, photonics, and
wafer-level advanced packaging, and expanded into system analysis and circuit
verification.
Beckley joined Cadence via the acquisition of Neolinear, a
technology spin-out of Carnegie Mellon University, where he served as President and CEO.
Prior to Neolinear, Beckley was head of the Systems Division at Avant! Corporation,
President and CEO of Xynetix, and held engineering and management positions at Harris
Corporation and General Motors.
Beckley received his BS in mathematics and
physics from Kalamazoo College and an MBA from Vanderbilt University.

Paul Cunningham, PhD
Senior Vice President and General Manager, System Verification Group

Paul Cunningham, PhD
Senior Vice President and General Manager, System Verification Group
Dr. Paul Cunningham has served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the System Verification Group (SVG) since March 2021, running the division since 2018. His responsibilities include logic simulation, emulation, prototyping, formal verification, Verification IP, and functional debug. Prior to this role, Cunningham was responsible for Cadence's frontend digital design tools including logic synthesis and design-for-test.
Dr. Cunningham joined Cadence in 2011 via the acquisition of Azuro, a startup developing concurrent physical optimization and useful skew clock tree synthesis technologies, where he was a co-founder and CEO.
Dr. Cunningham holds a MS and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge in the UK.

Alinka Flaminia
Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary

Alinka Flaminia
Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary
Alinka Flaminia has served as our Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary since
June 2020. Flaminia is responsible for Cadence worldwide legal operations, covering
matters such as commercial transactions, corporate governance, corporate social
responsibility, employment, export compliance, government affairs, intellectual
property, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and stock
administration.
Flaminia has served semiconductor and software companies her
entire in-house legal career, most recently as SVP, General Counsel, of Mellanox
Technologies Ltd. from September 2016 through April 2020 and as VP, General Counsel of
PMC-Sierra, Inc. from 2007 to 2016. Flaminia also held in-house counsel roles at Xilinx,
Inc. and McAfee (formerly Network Associates). Prior to moving in-house, Flaminia was in
private practice for 10 years, mostly litigating chemical product liability
matters.
Flaminia is an active member and a past president of the Silicon Valley
Association of General Counsel. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale
University and her Juris Doctor degree from Colorado University, School of Law where she
was Managing Editor of the school’s law review her final year.

Tina Jones
Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources

Tina Jones
Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources
Tina Jones has served as Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources since 2007,
leading the team and operations around the world. Jones previously served as Vice
President and Associate General Counsel. In that position, she advised the company on
employment-related issues, policies, and practices, and oversaw litigation ranging from
intellectual property and securities matters to commercial disputes.
Prior to
joining Cadence in 2003, Jones was a litigator and employment counselor with Gibson,
Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
Jones received her BA in political science from
Stanford University and her Juris Doctor degree from UCLA Law School, where she served
as an editor on the UCLA Law Review. Jones then clerked on the US Court of Appeals for
the Tenth Circuit.

Nimish Modi
Senior Vice President, Marketing & Business Development

Nimish Modi
Senior Vice President, Marketing & Business Development
Nimish Modi has served as Senior Vice President of Marketing & Business Development
(MBD) since 2013. In this role, he is responsible for corporate and strategic marketing,
corporate strategy, industry standards, cloud product offerings, and new business
development, including M&A. Prior to this role, he was Senior Vice President of
research and development for the System & Software Realization Group at Cadence
where he had responsibility for products and solutions in the areas of systems design
and verification, package and board design, hardware/software co-development and
verification, and SoC integration and verification.
Prior to joining Cadence in
2006, Modi spent 18 years at Intel Corporation, where he was most recently a vice
president in the Enterprise Platforms Group with responsibility for the company’s server
CPU development.
Modi holds a BE in electrical engineering from the University
of Bombay and a MS degree in computer engineering from Virginia Tech.

Chin-Chi Teng, PhD
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital & Signoff Group

Chin-Chi Teng, PhD
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital & Signoff Group
Dr. Chin-Chi Teng has served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Digital and Signoff Group (DSG) since 2018. Prior to this role, Teng held senior leadership positions in research and development in digital implementation.
Dr. Teng joined Cadence in 2002 via the acquisition of Silicon Perspective Corporation and subsequently led various research and development groups. He brought deep technical knowledge and more than 20 years of industry and academic experience to his role as leader of the IC Digital group.
Dr. Teng holds a BS in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University and an MS and PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds seven patents, and has written many EDA papers, several deep learning papers, and a book, Electrothermal Analysis of VLSI Systems.

John Wall
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

John Wall
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
John Wall has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) since
2017. He is responsible for the company’s overall finance, tax, and accounting
functions, as well as business operations, enterprise data and analytics, investor
relations, and global strategic sourcing. Wall also leads the Real Estate and Workplace
organization, which manages over 50 Cadence sites worldwide.
Wall previously
served as Corporate Controller and in other positions for more than 20 years, starting
in our Dublin, Ireland office before moving to our San Jose Headquarters in 2015. At the
beginning of his tenure with Cadence, Wall implemented the company’s international
corporate structure, and was instrumental in the creation of several of the company’s
sales models and its transition to a recurring revenue model.
Wall is a Fellow
of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and holds an NCBS from the
Institute of Technology, Tralee in Ireland.

Neil Zaman
Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer

Neil Zaman
Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer
Neil Zaman serves as Chief Revenue Officer and has been Senior Vice President of
Worldwide Field Operations (WFO) since 2015. As Chief Revenue Officer, Zaman is
responsible for the Sales, Services, Field Engineering, and Customer Support teams that
manage customer relationships around the world, driving customer success via the Cadence
Intelligent System Design strategy. Prior to this role, he held various leadership
positions in WFO, driving initiatives to strengthen the company’s relationship and grow
business with the top North American strategic accounts.
Prior to joining
Cadence in 1999, Zaman held key positions at Phoenix Technologies and IBM.
Zaman attended SUNY Stony Brook and then California State University, Hayward, where he
earned his BSc in finance.
Board Of Directors
Lip-Bu Tan
Lip-Bu Tan has served as Executive Chair of the Board of Directors of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. since December 2021 and has been a member of the Cadence Board of Directors since February 2004. He served as CEO of the company from 2009 to 2021, and as President from 2009 to 2017. He also serves as chairman of Walden International, a venture capital firm he founded in 1987. Prior to joining Cadence, Tan was Vice President at Chappell & Co. and held management positions at EDS Nuclear and ECHO Energy.
He is a member of The Business Council and serves on the board of directors of SoftBank Group Corp., Schneider Electric SE, Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd., and Green Hills Software. He also serves on the Board of Trustees and the School of Engineering Dean’s Council at Carnegie Mellon University and on the University of California, Berkeley’s Engineering Advisory Board. Tan was the recipient of the 2016 GSA Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award.
Tan received a BS from Nanyang University in Singapore, an MS in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the University of San Francisco.
Dr. John B. Shoven
Dr. John B. Shoven has served as a director of Cadence since 1992 and as Lead Independent Director since 2021. He served as Chairman of the Board from 2005 to 2021. Dr. Shoven is the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics, Emeritus 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, Emeritus 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 joined the faculty of Stanford University in 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.
Anirudh Devgan, PhD
Dr. Anirudh Devgan has served as President and CEO of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. since December 2021, and has been a member of the Board of Directors since August 2021. He served as President of the company from 2017 to 2021, overseeing all business groups, research and development, sales, field engineering and customer support, strategy, marketing, mergers and acquisitions, business development, and IT. Prior to becoming President, he was Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Digital & Signoff and System Verification groups at Cadence.
Prior to joining Cadence in 2012, Dr. Devgan was General Manager and Corporate Vice President of the Custom Design Business Unit at Magma Design Automation. Previous roles include management and technical positions at IBM, where he received numerous awards including the IBM Outstanding Innovation Award. Dr. Devgan is an IEEE Fellow, has written numerous research papers, and holds several patents.
Dr. Devgan received a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and MS and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.