Kathryn Kranen: the paradigm shifts at EDAC

Stop the presses! Someone other than the CEO of Mentor, Synopsys, or Cadence is going to be the Chair of EDAC.

What? Has the world come to an end?

Nope, but it turns out that even staid EDAC has, at last, learned how to innovate. It turns out that Mentor, Synopsys, and Cadence have, at least, seen the light and decided that they shouldn’t always be at the head of the class. As of yesterday, May 31st, there’s a new Chair at EDAC and it’s Kathryn Kranen, President & CEO at Jasper Design Automation.

Kathryn, of course, is well known within the EDA community. She’s been CEO at Jasper since 2003. Prior to Jasper, Kathryn was CEO of Verisity Design, and earlier on served as VP of North American sales at Quickturn. At the outset of her career, after earning a BSEE at Texas A&M, she worked as a design engineer at Rockwell, and then joined Daisy Systems in advance of her role at Quickturn.

In addition, Kathryn was named the 2005 recipient of the Marie R. Pistilli Woman in EDA Achievement Award, and has been an extremely hard working member of the Board of Directors of EDAC for many years.

I am personally elated at the news, and wish Kathryn all the best!

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Editor’s Note: The members of the 2012-2014 EDAC Board now include: Nimbic CEO Raul Camposano, Gradient President & CEO Ed Cheng, AWR CEO Dane Collins, Synopsys Chairman & CEO Aart de Geus, IC Manage President & CEO Dean Drako, PDF Solutions President & CEO John Kibarian, ARM EVP & GM Simon Segars, and BDA President & CEO Ravi Subramanian.

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Tags: Aart de Geus, Dane Collins, Dean Drako, Ed Cheng, EDAC, EDAC Board of Directors, EDAC Chair, Jasper Design Automation, John Kibarian, Kathryn Kranen, Oz Levia, Raul Camposano, Ravi Subramanian, Simon Segars

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