Uri Mayer Appointed VP European Field Operations at CoWare; Coincides with CoWare's European Expansion
SAN JOSE, Calif. & MUNICH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3,
2003--Uri Mayer, formerly president and chief executive officer (CEO) of
LISATek, Inc., which was recently acquired by CoWare(TM) Inc., was
named today to the newly-created position, vice President, European
Field Operations. Mayer reports to Peter Richards, vice president,
Worldwide Field Operations at CoWare, the leading supplier of
system-level electronic design automation (EDA) software.
In his new position, Mayer will oversee CoWare's expanding
European presence where the company will be establishing CoWare GmbH
in Munich, Germany. CoWare also has sales/support offices in Grenoble,
France, and Bracknell, United Kingdom.
"It gives me great pleasure to appoint Uri to this role," notes
Naumann. "Europe is a growing market opportunity for CoWare and Uri
has the skills and insight to help us understand the needs of this
important region of the world."
Mayer has more than 20 years of experience in both the application
specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and EDA industries. Prior to his
position at LISATek, he was vice president of worldwide business
development at Synopsys, Inc., a company he joined in 1990.
Previously, he served as managing director of Synopsys GmbH, the
central European subsidiary of Synopsys, Inc. Under his direction,
Synopsys GmbH became a multi-million dollar subsidiary with an average
annual revenue growth of more than 30 percent.
Mayer holds a master of science degree in Electrical Engineering
from the Technical University of Munich.
About CoWare
CoWare is the leading supplier of system-level electronic design
automation (EDA) software and services for system-on-chip (SoC)
designers. CoWare is revolutionizing SoC and embedded software
development by enabling customers to create design platforms that can
be rapidly optimized to meet specific market needs. SoC designs
consisting of embedded processors and software, busses, memory, new
and reused proprietary IP, are created and verified using the CoWare
N2C system-level design environment and the LISATek(TM) software
tools. CoWare's design environment utilizes open, standard languages
such as C and SystemC (C++), and interfaces with popular third-party
tools from Cadence, Synopsys and Mentor. CoWare software is employed
today by major systems, intellectual property (IP) and semiconductor
companies, including ARM, Canon, Fujitsu, Matsushita, Motorola,
Samsung, Sony, ST Microelectronics, Toshiba and Xilinx. For the second
year, the San Jose Business Journal has recognized CoWare as one of
the fastest-growing private companies in Silicon Valley. For more
information, visit www.CoWare.com.
CoWare and LISATek are trademarks of CoWare, Inc.
CONTACT: CoWare, Inc.
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