COMPASS Appoints EDA Industry Veteran F. Taylor Scanlon To V.P. Of Worldwide Marketing.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 1996--COMPASS Design Automation, Inc., a leader in electronic design automation (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ) software and libraries for deep submicron design, today announced F. Taylor Scanlon has been named vice president of worldwide marketing, directing the company's worldwide strategic and tactical marketing and applications engineering organization. With more than 25 years experience in semiconductor and electronic design automation, Scanlon, 49, previously held the vice president, North American Operations North American operation Surgical oncology Radical surgery of a 'frozen pelvis', consisting of radical en bloc resection of the uterus and urinary bladder. See 'Frozen pelvis.'. Cf 'All-American' and 'South American' operations. position for COMPASS. Scanlon replaces Jeff Lewis who has left the company to pursue personal interests. "Taylor played a key role in the initial spin-off of COMPASS from VLSI Technology VLSI Technology, Inc was a company which designed and manufactured custom and semi-custom ICs. The company was based in Silicon Valley, with headquarters at 1109 McKay Drive in San Jose, California. and has been integral in the company's success to date," stated President Dieter Mezger, COMPASS Design Automation. "I am very pleased to have him directing the worldwide marketing efforts and believe his broad experience base in this industry provides a solid platform from which to successfully lead the marketing efforts." Prior to joining COMPASS in 1991, Scanlon held several management positions with DAZIX, (formerly Daisy Systems
Daisy Systems Corporation ). Most recently, he held the position of vice president of worldwide marketing, where he directed strategic, product and tactical marketing, business development and marketing communications Marketing communications (or marcom) are messages and related media used to communicate with a market. Those who practice advertising, branding, direct marketing, graphic design, marketing, packaging, promotion, publicity, sponsorship, public relations, sales, sales . Scanlon also held engineering and operations management Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. positions for Motorola Inc.'s Semiconductor Sector and Honeywell Information Systems (GE). About COMPASS Design Automation COMPASS Design Automation is a leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) tools and libraries for designing deep submicron application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and application-specific standard products (ASSPs). The company supplies a complete set of tools for silicon implementation as well as front-end design and provides foundry flexible Passport and custom ASIC libraries, memory and datapath compilers, and library development tools. COMPASS is headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , and develops, markets and sells its products worldwide. More information about COMPASS can be obtained on the World Wide Web by accessing http://www.compass-da.com. -0- Note to Editors: Passport is a trademark of COMPASS Design Automation, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Tsantes & Associates Anna Leonard, 408/452-8700 anna@tsantes.com |
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