The ESD Alliance recently finished elections for our new slate of Governing Council members and I’m pleased to welcome back nine members along with newly elected member Aki Fujimura, D2S’ CEO. Our Governing Council Chair is Simon Segars, CEO of Arm, who has served in that role since 2019.
Returning Governing Council members who will serve a two-year term that runs through 2023:
- Aart de Geus, chairman and co-CEO of Synopsys, Inc.
- Dean Drako, president and CEO at IC Manage
- John Kibarian, president and CEO of PDF Solutions, Inc.
- Prakash Narain, president and CEO from Real Intent
- Joe Sawicki, executive vice president of Siemens EDA
- Simon Segars
- Babak Taheri, CEO/CTO of Silvaco
- Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Cadence Design Systems
- Bob Smith, executive director of the ESD Alliance
As our new term gets under way, I commend the Governing Council for its accomplishments from the last term. With this kind of momentum, I expect we will accomplish even more the new term.
A big thank you to our member companies. The current slate of Governing Council members was elected by more than 90% of eligible members companies casting ballots during the voting period that ended May 14.
