Synplicity

John Hanlon joined Synplicity as senior vice president of finance, and chief financial officer in October 2005. His responsibilities, as leader of the finance team, will include overseeing worldwide finance-related activities including; accounting and external reporting, investor relations, strategic financial planning, as well as spearheading new financial opportunities. Mr. Hanlon has more than 22 years of public and private sector financial management experience in high technology companies, with emphasis on software, Internet and manufacturing. Most recently, he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer at Accelrys, Inc., formerly Pharmacopeia, Inc. Previously, Mr. Hanlon was senior vice president and chief financial officer at MDL Information Systems for 10 years and also spent 10 years in public accounting at Coopers & Lybrand, LLP. Mr. Hanlon holds a B.S. from California State University, Hayward, and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Andrew Dauman joined Synplicity in August 1994 as employee number three and has served as vice president, worldwide engineering since May 2005. In this role, Mr. Dauman oversees the company's global engineering team, including applications engineering, to ensure new and existing products are developed and released on time and with continuous quality improvements. Mr. Dauman also participates in setting the company's strategic direction. In his previous role as vice president corporate applications engineering, Mr. Dauman's responsibilities included technical support, product verification, product training and technical publications. He also created the quality assurance organization and established the initial corporate product quality methods and standards. Mr. Dauman has been instrumental in establishing the company's reputation in the EDA industry for delivering rapid, accurate technical support, while delivering some of the most reliable, high-quality software in the industry. This has contributed to Synplicity being considered to provide amongst the highest levels of customer satisfaction in the industry. Prior to joining Synplicity, Mr. Dauman was a member of the AutoLogic ASIC synthesis team at Mentor Graphics Corporation. Before Mentor Graphics, Mr. Dauman worked as a CPU designer at Prime Computer, Inc. and Raytheon Company. Mr. Dauman holds a BSEE from Boston University.

Alisa Yaffa is a co-founder of Synplicity, which she started with Ken McElvain in 1994. Since 1997 she has served as the company's chairman of the board. Ms. Yaffa is also responsible for advising on issues relating to internal intellectual property matters. From 1994 to 1996 Ms. Yaffa was the CEO of Synplicity, and at various times in its early days was responsible for sales, marketing and finance, holding the positions of vice president, sales, and vice president, marketing, and chief financial officer. Ms. Yaffa holds the distinction of being the first woman co-founder, CEO, and chairman of the board of an Electronic Design Automation company started in the United States. Prior to starting Synplicity, Ms. Yaffa worked in various technical and marketing roles at Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Mentor Graphics Corporation, EDA Systems, Inc., Amdahl Corporation and VLSI Technology, Inc. Ms. Yaffa holds a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Jim Lovas joined Synplicity in 1999 and has served as Vice President North American Sales since October 2004. Mr. Lovas is responsible for achieving Synplicity's North America sales objective, continuing the company's successful penetration into the ASIC market, and expanding Synplicity's leading market share position in FPGA synthesis. Mr. Lovas has more than 20 years of experience in the EDA and semiconductor industries. He joined Synplicity in 1999 as senior account manager, and in 2002 was promoted to director, Northeast area sales, located in Boston, MA. In this role he was instrumental in transforming the Eastern area sales group into a model of efficiency and proper sales execution. Prior to joining Synplicity, Mr. Lovas was the Eastern area director at Summit Design, and also held senior sales and AE manager positions at Zycad Corporation. Mr. Lovas began his career as an ASIC designer at ITT Avionics. Mr. Lovas holds a BSEE from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude, and an MSCS from the Steven's Institute of Technology.

Jim Robinson joined Synplicity in July 1997 and has served as Vice President of Corporate Applications since May 2005. In this role, Mr. Robinson is responsible for overseeing Synplicity's Corporate Applications organization and the Development organizations for the ASIC Verification and FPGA Debug product lines. He is also responsible for Synplicity's Technical Support Organization that, since 2004, has achieved high user satisfaction ratings in the EETimes Annual Electronic Design Automation Branding Study.

Joe Gianelli joined Synplicity in April 1998, and has served as Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Alliances since June 2004. Mr. Gianelli is responsible for all strategic alliances, including development and marketing agreements with key silicon and EDA partners. Prior to this appointment he has held positions within Synplicity as Director of Channel Marketing and Director of Strategic Alliances. Since joining Synplicity Mr. Gianelli has vastly expanded Synplicity's portfolio of strategic alliances and has assisted in our two technology acquisitions. He has increased FPGA OEM revenue by over a factor of 20 and more recently is responsible for architecting key alliances with emerging structure/platform ASIC vendors such as NEC Electronics and LSI Logic. He has built Synplicity's strategic alliance portfolio into a highly respected example of close collaboration between EDA and semiconductor industries. Prior to joining Synplicity, Mr. Gianelli has held various engineering, sales and marketing positions in the EDA industry over the past 18 years at Daisy Systems, ECAD, Cadence, Meta Software, Epic Design and Synopsys.

Thomas Weatherford has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2005. From August 1997 until his retirement in December 2002, Mr. Weatherford served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Business Objects SA, a provider of business intelligence software. Mr. Weatherford also serves on the boards of directors of Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc., a maker of analog and power semiconductors, SMART Modular Technologies, Inc., a manufacturer of memory products, Tesco Corporation, a global provider of technology-based solutions to the upstream energy industry, InfoUSA, Inc., a provider of sales leads, mailing lists, direct marketing, database marketing, e-mail marketing and market research solutions, and several privately held companies. Mr. Weatherford holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Houston. Mr. Weatherford is located in the United States.

Elected 2004 Thomas Weatherford has served as a director since July 2004. Mr. Weatherford served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Business Objects S.A., from September 1997 until his retirement in January 2003. He previously held senior financial positions at NETCOM On-Line Communication Services, Inc., Logitech, Inc., Texas Instruments Incorporated, Schlumberger, and Tandem Computers, Inc. Mr. Weatherford also serves on the boards of directors of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., Saba Software, Inc., Synplicity, Inc., Tesco Corporation and SMART Modular Technologies. Mr. Weatherford received a B.B.A. from the University of Houston, Texas.

Before joining Tabula, Dennis Segers served as president, CEO and director of Matrix Semiconductor, the pioneer in the design and development of three-dimensional integrated circuits. At Matrix, Dennis oversaw the transition of the company from the early technology feasibility phase to high volume production, culminating in the acquisition of the company by SanDisk in January, 2006. Before Matrix, Dennis served as the senior vice president and general manager of the advanced products group at Xilinx, where he built a multi-billion dollar business. Dennis oversaw the development and introduction of the Virtex family of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), the most successful programmable logic family in the industry's history. In April 2000, he was elected to the Xilinx board of directors. A 30-year industry veteran, Dennis began his career at Mostek Corporation as a product development engineer for Mostek's 16K DRAMs. He held a variety of management positions in circuit design, process technology, and product development in a wide range of IC businesses including memory, logic, and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs). In 1988, Dennis co-founded Summit Micro Circuits, a contract-design company for high performance memory. A graduate of Texas A&M University, Dennis is a member of the board of directors of the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA), as well as Synplicity, Inc.