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Andrew T. Yang
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Andrew T. Yang co-founded Apache in 2001, focusing on power closure for advanced high-performance and low-power SoC designs, and has served as chief executive officer and chairman
of the board of directors since its inception. Dr. Yang has been an active entrepreneur and investor in EDA since 1993, when he founded Anagram, a high-capacity simulation solutions provider for deep-submicron ICs. Anagram merged with Avant! in 1996, where he served as the Vice President of the Analysis Product Division responsible for all extraction and analysis products until 1998. Since 1998, Dr. Yang was a lead investor and a director of a number of EDA start-ups including CADMOS (now Cadence), Ultima (now Cadence), InnoLogic (now Synopsys), and Mojave (now Magma). Dr.
Yang received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
in 1989 and was a tenured professor at the University of Washington
from 1989 to 1996.
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Keith Mueller
VP of Worldwide Sales and Marketing
Before joining Apache, Mr. Mueller was vice president of worldwide sales at Silicon Perspective Corporation (SPC), a successful start-up acquired by Cadence Design Systems, Inc., where he demonstrated his ability to create a strong worldwide sales channel for highly technical software, achieving more than $30 million in sales in less than three years. Prior to SPC, Mr. Mueller was vice president of sales at Anagram, Inc., a high-capacity circuit simulation start-up that was acquired by Avant! in 1996. Mr. Mueller previously served in various sales management positions at Quickturn Corporation (now a Cadence company), and played a key role in its early growth and initial public offering. Mr. Mueller holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a master's degree in business administration from Santa Clara University.
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Shen Lin
Chief Technical Officer
Shen Lin co-founded Apache along with Andrew T. Yang and Norman Chang in March 2001. Before founding Apache, Dr. Lin worked at Palo Alto HP Labs, focusing on inductance related signal integrity issues and contributing to the HP-Intel IA64 micro-processor design. In 2000, he co-authored a widely read book on state-of-the-art methods for interconnect titled "Interconnect Analysis and Synthesis", published by John Wiley & Sons. Prior to his work at HP Labs, Dr. Lin worked at LSI Logic developing on-the-fly ASIC design methodologies. His career began as a research staff member of the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, focusing on fast circuit simulation and clock-skew minimization techniques. Dr. Lin received his Ph.D. in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992, where he published his well-known thesis on recursive convolution for circuit simulation. |
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Dian Yang
Vice President of Business Development &
General Manager of Asia
Before joining Apache, Dr. Yang co-founded InnoLogic Systems, a provider of formal verification solutions for full-custom designs. InnoLogic was acquired by Synopsys in 2003, where he continued to lead the adoption, integration, and advancement of the InnoLogic products as a senior director in the implementation business unit. Previous to InnoLogic, Dr. Yang held various management positions in SGI/MIPS, LSI, and Avant!. Dr. Yang has extensive experience in development and management of EDA software, including memory compilers, static timing tools, DFT and functional verification solutions. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. degree from Shanghai University of Science and Technology.
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