Synopsys CEO and Leadership

Aart J. de Geus is a co-founder of Synopsys, Inc., a provider of electronic design automation software and related services for semiconductor design companies, and currently serves as its Chairman of the Board of Directors and Co-Chief Executive Officer. Since 1986, Dr. de Geus has held various positions at Synopsys, including President, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Senior Vice President of Marketing, and has served as a member of its board of directors. From 1982 to 1986, Dr. de Geus was employed by the General Electric Company, a global infrastructure, finance and media company, where he was the Manager of the Advanced Computer-Aided Engineering Group. Dr. de Geus joined the Applied Materials board of directors in 2007.

Sassine first joined Synopsys in 1998 and currently serves as the chief operating officer. In this role, he leads our market-leading EDA and IP business groups, our exceptional sales and marketing organization, and the industry’s finest customer success teams, delivering technology differentiation and high-value innovation to enable our customers’ ambitious objectives. Sassine brings multiple decades of experience in chip design, applications engineering, customer support, sales, and business management. Most recently, he was general manager of the Design Group. Before Synopsys, he worked at Intel as a design engineer. Sassine received his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Lebanese American University; a B.S.E.E from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1993; and an M.S.E.E. from the University of Tennessee in 1995.

Sriram joined the Synopsys team in 1997 and currently serves as the Chief Information Officer leading Synopsys’ global information technology teams. He brings over 20 years of experience in scaling IT and R&D infrastructure, operations and business processes, while also enabling employee productivity to support the growth objectives of the company. As a seasoned change agent, Sriram has overseen several transformations in engineering infrastructure, such as enabling high performance computing and adoption of cloud computing, changing out the service management stacks for both internal and external customers to improve, and enabling sustainable collaboration at Synopsys. Additionally, he holds multiple patents in areas of IT operations, distributed processing and monitoring. Sriram has a Master’s of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.

Deirdre Hanford (Deirdre Ryan Hanford) is an American executive in electronic design automation industry. she is Chief Security Officer for Synopsys.

Erika Varga McEnroe is a Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at Synopsys and is based in Mountain View, California. She has worked as Auditor at EY; Associate General Counsel, Assistant Corporate Secretary and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at Synopsys; and Associate at Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel. Erika studied at Babson College between 1986 and 1990 and University of California Hastings College of the Law between 1991 and 1994.

Aart J. de Geus is a co-founder of Synopsys, Inc., a provider of electronic design automation software and related services for semiconductor design companies, and currently serves as its Chairman of the Board of Directors and Co-Chief Executive Officer. Since 1986, Dr. de Geus has held various positions at Synopsys, including President, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Senior Vice President of Marketing, and has served as a member of its board of directors. From 1982 to 1986, Dr. de Geus was employed by the General Electric Company, a global infrastructure, finance and media company, where he was the Manager of the Advanced Computer-Aided Engineering Group. Dr. de Geus joined the Applied Materials board of directors in 2007.

Aart J. de Geus is a co-founder of Synopsys, Inc., a provider of electronic design automation software and related services for semiconductor design companies, and currently serves as its Chairman of the Board of Directors and Co-Chief Executive Officer. Since 1986, Dr. de Geus has held various positions at Synopsys, including President, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Senior Vice President of Marketing, and has served as a member of its board of directors. From 1982 to 1986, Dr. de Geus was employed by the General Electric Company, a global infrastructure, finance and media company, where he was the Manager of the Advanced Computer-Aided Engineering Group. Dr. de Geus joined the Applied Materials board of directors in 2007.

Sassine first joined Synopsys in 1998 and currently serves as the chief operating officer. In this role, he leads our market-leading EDA and IP business groups, our exceptional sales and marketing organization, and the industry’s finest customer success teams, delivering technology differentiation and high-value innovation to enable our customers’ ambitious objectives. Sassine brings multiple decades of experience in chip design, applications engineering, customer support, sales, and business management. Most recently, he was general manager of the Design Group. Before Synopsys, he worked at Intel as a design engineer. Sassine received his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Lebanese American University; a B.S.E.E from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1993; and an M.S.E.E. from the University of Tennessee in 1995.

As Synopsys’ co-CEO, Dr. Chi-Foon Chan shares responsibility for crafting vision and strategy, leading the company, and ensuring execution excellence in support of our customers’ success. As the company’s President and COO, a role Dr. Chan held for 14 years prior to his 2012 appointment to President and co-CEO, he guided internal operations and worldwide field organizations. Dr. Chan’s joined Synopsys in 1990 as Vice President of Applications and Services where he helped build the Technical Field organization. He has sponsored several key initiatives such as entering the IP market, and personally facilitated key acquisitions such as Avant!, Virage Logic, and most recently, Magma Design Automation. Prior to Synopsys, Dr. Chan contributed to industry leading companies like NEC Corporation, where he was General Manager of the microprocessor group, responsible for marketing all NEC chip devices in North America. Prior to NEC, Dr. Chan was an engineering manager at Intel Corporation. He holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University; and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University.