Magma Design Automation

Peter S. Teshima became Magma's Chief Financial Officer in 2006, having joined Magma in 2004 as Vice President, Finance. He has served in financial management and operational roles in EDA and other technology industries. Before joining Magma, Teshima served as chief operating officer for Hier Design Automation and previously was CFO at InTime Software, Cyclone Commerce, Avant! Corporation, InterHDL and High Level Design Systems. He holds a B.S. degree in commerce from Santa Clara University.

Saeid Ghafouri joined Magma in 2002 as senior vice president, Field Operations. Before joining Magma he served as president & CEO of Empact Software, where he managed the transformation of the company from a web-based electronics exchange business to a profitable enterprise software company. In 1998 he became president and CEO of EDA company interHDL, which was later acquired by Avant!. Prior to that Ghafouri joined Silicon Architects - the first commercial library provider - and was responsible for worldwide sales operations and, following its merger with Synopsys, became Synopsys' vice president of sales for all library products. He spent eight years with Cadence (ECAD at the time), where he built the field AE organization and later was given responsibility for rebuilding the factory support infrastructure, including corporate AEs, educational services and documentation. Ghafouri began his career as an IC designer for Data General. He holds a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering.

Anirudh Devgan joined Magma in 2005 and manages product development for Magma’s Custom Design Business Unit. He spent 12 years at IBM in various management and technical positions at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM Server Division, IBM Microelectronics Division and IBM Austin Research Lab. Devgan, named an IEEE Fellow in 2006, was the recipient of DAC's Best Paper Award in 2005, the IEEE William J. McCalla Best Paper Award in 2003, IBM Microelectronics Division's Excellence Award in 2001, the 2000 IBM Corporate Award, and the IBM Outstanding Innovation Award and IBM Outstanding Research Accomplishment Award, both in 1999. He has served on program committees for various international conferences including DAC, ICCAD, ASP-DAC, VLSI Design and ISQED. Devgan has published more than 70 research papers and has 22 U.S. patents either issued or pending on various aspects of electronic design automation and circuit design. Devgan received a B. Tech. degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and M.S. & Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

David Stanley joined Magma in 2005 as senior vice president, Corporate Affairs, later assuming the additional role of corporate secretary. From 2004 to 2005 Stanley was an independent legal adviser. Prior to that Stanley was Magma's director for Corporate Development and Strategy from 2003 to 2004. He was general counsel of COLO.COM, a collocation space provider, from 1999 until 2003. He was the general counsel and a member of the Executive Staff of Avant! Corporation from 1997 to 1999. Stanley received an A.B. degree in economics from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and a J.D. degree from the University of San Francisco.

Susumu Kohyama was appointed to Magma's board in 2005. Dr. Kohyama has been President and CEO of Toshiba Ceramics Co., Ltd., a leading materials company serving the semiconductor and LCD industries, since 2004. Dr. Kohyama has over 25 years' experience in the semiconductor industry. From 2003 to 2004, he served as Chief Technology Officer of the Electronic Devices Group of Toshiba Corporation. From 2001 to 2003, he was Executive Vice President of Toshiba Semiconductor Company.

Thomas Rohrs was appointed as a Director of the Company in December 2004. He became Chairman of the Board and CEO in April 2006 and in February 2009 he became Executive Chairman of the Board. Mr. Rohrs presently serves on the board of Magna Design Automation, Inc., Ultraclean Technologies, and several private companies. In addition, he is an adviser and consultant to a number of companies both public and private. Mr. Rohrs spent five years with Applied Materials Inc., most recently as Senior Vice President, Global Operations, and was also a member of the company’s Executive Committee. Prior to that, he held executive positions with Silicon Graphics, MIPS Computer Systems and Hewlett-Packard Company’s Personal Computer Group. Mr. Rohrs holds a masters degree from Harvard Business School and a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Notre Dame Unitversity.