Xoomsys Attracts World Class Talent to Executive Team; Anthony Luk Joins Xoomsys as VP Engineering; John Yelinek Joins as VP Sales.SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Xoomsys Inc., a Silicon Valley company focused on enabling large-scale circuit simulation, today announced that it has attracted world-class talent in two new executives: Anthony Luk, vice president of engineering; and John Yelinek, vice president of worldwide sales. "We're thrilled to welcome Tony and John to our management team," said Anjaneya Thakar, president and 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. of Xoomsys. "Tony has a long track record of building successful products and deploying them at leading customer sites worldwide. With our product beginning to make the transition to beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the , this is the right time to have a strong leader on our team." Mr. Luk, a 20-year veteran in the 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. field, will lead the engineering team and be responsible for developing market-ready circuit simulation solutions based on Xoomsys' breakthrough distributed processing technology. Before joining Xoomsys, Mr. Luk was vice president of engineering at Barcelona Design, a circuit optimization software company, and before that was vice president of the infrastructure technology product line at 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. ) (Nasdaq:CDN). He also held engineering management positions at Cascade Design Automation and Seattle Silicon. "John has a record of success in getting involved in companies at the start-up phase, developing their sales strategy and channels, and delivering solid business performance," added Mr. Thakar. "We'll be ready to put our product in the hands of major worldwide electronics companies before the end of this year, so it is the perfect time to bring John in to lead the sales effort." Mr. Yelinek will be responsible for building a worldwide sales team, combining direct sales and distributors; establishing effective sales processes; and developing strong and deep relationships with leading customers. Mr. Yelinek was formerly vice president of worldwide sales at Nassda Corporation, which was recently acquired by Synopsys Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS SNPS Space Nuclear Power System ). Previously, he was vice president sales for the Epic Technology Group at Synopsys, and he had been vice president domestic sales for Epic Design Technology before its acquisition by Synopsys. He also held sales management positions at ECAD ECAD Electronic Computer-Aided Design ECAD European Cities Against Drugs ECAD European Center for Aviation Development ECAD external carotid artery dysplasia , one of the companies that merged to become Cadence. About Xoomsys Xoomsys is developing a distributed processing solution for accurate large-scale circuit simulation using industry-standard circuit simulators and inexpensive Linux computing clusters. Xoomsys' unique breakthrough technology in distributed processing enables orders of magnitude gain in simulation throughput without any loss in accuracy. Accurate large-scale circuit simulation is a critical requirement for silicon success as integrated circuits migrate to smaller geometries with high operating frequencies and low power consumption. For more information, see www.xoomsys.com. |
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