Cadence announced the promotion of three senior leaders to executive management positions in R&D and Worldwide Sales and Field Operations. Chi-Ping Hsu, 53, was named senior vice president of research and development for the Implementation Products Group. Hsu has previously served as chief strategist of products and technologies and corporate vice president and general manager of both synthesis solutions and digital IC implementation. Prior to joining Cadence in 2003, he served as president and chief operating officer of Get2Chip and before that held executive management positions at Avant! Corporation.

Nimish Modi, 46, was named senior vice president of research and development for the Front End Group with responsibility for products and solutions in the areas of logic design, systems design, verification, SoC IP integration and hardware/software co-validation. Prior to joining Cadence in 2006, Modi spent 18 years at Intel.

Tom Cooley, 46, was named senior vice president of Worldwide Field Operations. He is responsible for worldwide sales, product marketing, and technical field operations. Cooley joined Cadence in 1995 and has held various positions, including leading the company's sales activities in the regions of North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and India. Prior to Cadence, he held application engineering and sales positions at Cadnetix, Mentor Graphics and Racal-Redac.