CoWare Names Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations; Peter J. Richards Brings EDA & Embedded Software Experience to CoWare.Business/Technology Editors 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. 22, 2002 CoWare(TM) Inc. announced today that Peter J. Richards has joined the company as vice president of worldwide field operations. He reports to Alan Naumann, CoWare's president and chief executive officer (CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. ) and has responsibility for all sales, pre- and post-sales support and services activities worldwide. Richards comes from Simplex, now part of Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. , Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. ), where he served as vice president of worldwide operations. Previously, he was vice president of Americas sales and operations at Wind River Systems Inc., a leading provider of embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. and services for connected smart devices in the Internet age. Under his leadership, Wind River's revenue grew from $93 million in 1998 to more than $300 million in 2001. Prior to Wind River Systems, Richards spent 16 years at Tandem Computers Inc., where he served in increasingly responsible roles. In his last position at Tandem, he was vice president of sales for its worldwide telecommunications business unit, responsible for $600 million in sales revenues. "Pete is a great addition to the CoWare management team," said Alan Naumann, president and CEO of CoWare. "He has proven to be an exceptional leader and motivator, with strong sales skills. We believe Pete will help us move CoWare into the next phase of explosive growth and industry dominance." Adds Richards, "CoWare is the company to watch in 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. . It has a clear and winning sales strategy, innovative products and an executive team made up of seasoned EDA veterans. I'm looking forward to making an impact at CoWare." About CoWare As the leading supplier of system-level electronic design automation (EDA) software and services for System-on-Chip (SOC) designers, CoWare, Inc. provides a platform-based design methodology that can cut design time in half. As a founder and leader of SystemC, CoWare is driving the industry toward a unifying system design language. CoWare software is employed today by major systems, intellectual property (IP) and semiconductor companies, including Alcatel, ARM, Canon, Fujitsu, InterDigital interdigital between two digits. interdigital cysts see interdigital pyoderma, pododermatitis. interdigital dermatitis 1. the early lesion in the development of infectious footrot in sheep; called also sheep scald. , Matsushita, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sanyo, Sony, STMicroelectronics, Tensilica and Toshiba. CoWare was recognized as the fifth fastest-growing private company in Silicon Valley in 2000 (1). For more information, visit www.CoWare.com. CoWare is a trademark of CoWare, Inc. (1) San Jose Business Journal |
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