
Dane Collins
Chief Executive Officer |
Dane Collins has many years of industry experience, having managed both development and operation groups at EEsof, Inc., Cadence Design Systems, and High Level Design Systems (HLD). He earned his BSEE in 1983 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and began his career as a microwave circuit designer at General Dynamics. In 1987 he joined EEsof, Inc. as an applications engineer, and then moved to Cadence Design Systems, where he was one of the founding members of the Cadence Analog Division, which was created to address the analog IC market. As the director of the design environment group, Dane led the development team that created the first mixed analog-digital design environment, which achieved tremendous commercial success. He then left Cadence in order to co-found HLD, starting in product development before moving into operations. In 1998 Dane joined AWR, starting first as vice president of engineering then moving to executive vice president, and finally to his current position as CEO.
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