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Walden C. Rhines 61 is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mentor Graphics a leader in worldwide electronic design automation with revenue of $792 million in 2006. During his tenure at Mentor Graphics revenue has more than doubled growth rate since 1999 has been number one among the Big 3 EDA companies and Mentor has grown the industry’s number one market share solutions in physical verification design concept-through-functional verification and printed circuit board design.
Prior to joining Mentor Graphics Rhines was Executive Vice President of Texas Instruments’ Semiconductor Group sharing responsibility for TI’s Components Sector and having direct responsibility for the entire semiconductor business with more than $5 billion of revenue and over 30 000 people.
During his 21 years at TI Rhines managed TI’s thrust into digital signal processing and supervised that business from inception with the TMS 320 family of DSP’s through growth to become the cornerstone of TI’s semiconductor technology. He was also responsible for development of the first TI speech synthesis devices (used in Speak & Spell) and is co-inventor of the GaN blue-violet light emitting diode (now important for DVD players). He was President of TI’s Data Systems Group and held numerous other semiconductor executive management positions.
Rhines served as chairman of the Semiconductor Technical Advisory Committee of the Department of Commerce as an executive committee member of the board of directors of the Corporation for Open Systems and as a board member of the Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers' Association (CBEMA) SEMI-Sematech/SISA Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDAC) University of Michigan National Advisory Council and Sematech. He served three two-year terms as Chairman of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium and is currently Vice-Chairman. He is also currently a Board member of the Semiconductor Research Corporation the Global Semiconductor Alliance the Portland Classic Wine Auction and Lewis and Clark College.
Dr. Rhines holds a bachelor of science degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Michigan a master of science and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Stanford University a master of business administration from Southern Methodist University and an Honorary Doctor of Technology degree from Nottingham Trent University. | 