EVE named Keith Hopkins to the position of Vice President of Worldwide Sales, reporting to Dr. Luc Burgun, its CEO. He will be based in EVE-USA’s San Jose, Calif., headquarters. Hopkins has most recently held the title of Vice President of Sales at Denali Software (2000-2003) and Artisan Components, now part of ARM (2004-2007). He began his career in 1981 as a technical marketing engineer at Intel. He held technical positions at Intel and the former Daisy Systems and then in 1988, moved to Mentor Graphics, where he rose through the ranks to become director of sales. EVE provides hardware-assisted verification solutions, from acceleration to fast emulation and prototyping.