Cadence has appointed Alexander Duesener as Group Director of Marketing for the company’s activities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Duesener will hold overall responsibility for platform, product, kits and corporate marketing in EMEA. He joined Cadence as Technical Advisor to Ajay Malhotra, Senior Vice President of Marketing. Before joining Cadence, Duesener spent more than 6 years at Intel.