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Charlie Huang serves as Cadence Corporate Vice President, Business Development, reporting to President and CEO Michael J. Fister and CFO William Porter. Huang is responsible for working with Fister and his team in finding and evaluating growth opportunities for Cadence in EDA, the adjacencies and in developing markets. Huang also manages Cadence's investment portfolio, which consists of venture capital and direct investments.
Huang is a 14-year veteran of the electronic design automation industry, with experience as a CEO, entrepreneur, technologist and manager.
Huang was a General Partner at Telos Venture Partners in 2004 and 2005, after serving as Corporate Vice President of Integrated Circuit Solutions Business Development at Cadence. He also has had a variety of other responsibilities at Cadence, including product line management, product marketing and strategy, business development, mergers and acquisitions, and foundry relationships.
Prior to that, Huang co-founded CadMOS Design Technology, a company that provided solutions for signal integrity problems in ultra deep sub-micron processes. As CEO of CadMOS, he raised venture capital from a variety of investors and managed the company through its successful acquisition by Cadence in 2001.
Before CadMOS, he was vice president of R&D at EPIC Design Technology, a startup that pioneered static timing analysis, fastmos, and RC extraction technologies for IC designs. After EPIC Design's successful IPO in 1996, it was acquired by Synopsys, where Huang became Vice President of R&D in the EPIC Technology Group.
Huang holds Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and an MSEE and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a U.S. patent on piecewise linear event driven simulation. Huang also serves on the board at Luxtera, Virtutech and Gradient. | 