VaST Systems Technology promoted Jeff Roane to the position of vice president of marketing and business development. Roane joined VaST from ProphICy Semiconductor, where he was founder and CEO. Prior to ProphICy, he was vice president of marketing for SP&R at Cadence Design Systems. Roane began his career at Texas Instruments. VaST Systems Technology solutions enable the creation of a virtual system prototype - a cycle-accurate software model of a system that operates at near real-time speeds under actual software loads.