CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
9 September 2004
Company News
Nassda Expands Executive Staff
Nassda Corporation announced major appointments to its executive ranks to support greater product adoption and growth in its worldwide customer base. Dermott Lynch has been promoted to vice president, U.S. sales, and Susanne Hampe has been hired as the European general manager. In these new positions, both Lynch and Hampe report to Nassda CEO, Sang Wang.
John Yelinek, who has been responsible for building Nassda's sales and support team since joining the company in January 2000, has been appointed to the new role of vice president of major accounts from his previous role as vice president for world-wide sales. Yelinek will continue to focus on expanding business with Nassda's largest and most important customers who require its advanced nanometer verification and analysis technology.
Sang Wang, CEO, stated, "Our customers, including 25 out of the top 25 world-wide semiconductor companies, have been adopting Nassda tools and require greater support. We are dedicating executive resources to oversee each region's sales and support operations, including major accounts."
Lynch was formerly the director of Northwest sales at Nassda. He is an 18 year veteran of the EDA industry, and served as vice president of business development at Sente until its merger with Sequence Design.
Before Sente, he was director of technical marketing and Western region sales manager at Quad Design. Lynch has also held sales and engineering positions at Ashling Microsystems, Elcor Associates and Contec Microelectronics. Lynch will oversee domestic sales from Nassda's corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
Based in Munich, Germany, Susanne Hampe was formerly European sales director for Barcelona Design (Sunnyvale, California). Ms. Hampe will be responsible for Nassda's sales operations in the European market.
Before joining Barcelona Design, Ms. Hampe worked for Simplex Solutions as general manager for Central Europe. After Cadence Design System's acquisition of Simplex, she became business development manager for Europe at Cadence.
Daniel Borgraeve, who had been Nassda's European director of operations, has resigned to pursue other business opportunities.
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