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Anirudh Devgan, Ph.D. is a technology executive, currently the President of Cadence Design Systems, a software S&P 500 company. Cadence had revenues of roughly $1.9B in 2017.

He oversees all EDA products, including the digital implementation and signoff, functional verification, hardware system verification, analog/mixed signal/custom IC design, PCB and packaging businesses. Additionally, he is responsible for the corporate strategy, marketing and business development functions. Additionally, he is responsible for corporate strategy, corporate and strategic marketing, industry standards, and new business development, including M&A.

Prior to joining Cadence in 2012, Anirudh Devgan spent seven years at Magma Design Automation as General Manager and Corporate Vice President of Magma’s Custom Design Business Unit, leading the development and introduction of several successful products. Prior to his tenure at Magma, he spent 12 years at IBM in various management and technical positions at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM Server Division, IBM Microelectronics Division and IBM Austin Research Lab, where he received numerous awards including the IBM Outstanding Innovation Award and IBM Outstanding Research Accomplishment.

Devgan is an IEEE Fellow and has published numerous research papers and holds 27 U.S. patents. He has received best paper awards from ACM Design Automation Conference and IEEE/ACM ICCAD Conference (William J. McCalla Award). He has served on program committees at various international conferences and is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Devgan received a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.