OI 10-Q Quarter ended June 30, 2014

Mr. Sohn has extensive finance, operations and investment expertise in the semiconductor and broader technology industry from his leadership and advisory roles at technology companies and investment firms. Mr. Sohn brings broad perspective on corporate strategy and international industry trends to our Board. In addition, Mr. Sohn contributes to the expertise of our Board from serving and having served as a member of other public company boards.

Mr. Gavrielov has extensive executive leadership and management experience from his roles as a chief executive officer and other management positions at a range of technology companies. Moreover, as a former executive officer of Cadence, Mr. Gavrielov brings to the Board an appreciation of our business and culture. In addition to his executive leadership experience, Mr. Gavrielov contributes to the expertise of our Board from serving and having served as a member of other public company boards.

Ms. Krakauer has served as Board Chair since 2023 and as a director of Cadence since 2022. Ms. Krakauer retired as Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer of Dell Corporation, a global information technology company, in 2017. Prior to that, she held multiple executive positions at EMC Corporation, a global IT infrastructure company, which she joined in 2008. These included Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer; Executive Vice President, Business Development, Global Enterprise Services; Executive Vice President, Global Human Resources; and VP and COO, Technology Services & Solutions and Managed Services Businesses. Prior to joining EMC, Ms. Krakauer held executive general management roles at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Compaq Computer Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation.

Mr. Adams has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Penguin Solutions, Inc., a compute, memory and LED solutions provider, since 2020. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Lumileds Holding B.V., a light engine technology company, from 2017 to 2019 and served as President of Micron Technology, Inc., a semiconductor solutions company, from 2012 to 2016. From 2006 to 2012, Mr. Adams served in several positions at Micron Technology, Inc., including interim Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Vice President of Digital Media. Prior to joining Micron Technology, Inc., Mr. Adams served as Chief Operating Officer of Lexar Media, Inc. in 2006 and as Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Creative Labs, Inc. from 2002 to 2006.

Mr. Chew has extensive financial and accounting expertise and executive leadership experience from his roles as chief financial officer at other technology companies and as a partner at a Big 4 accounting firm. In addition to his experience as a chief financial officer and an accounting firm partner, Mr. Chew contributes to the expertise of our Board from serving and having served as a member of other public company boards.

Ms. Liuson has served as President of the Developer Division of Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”), a global technology provider, since 2021, after her tenure as Corporate Vice President from 2012 to 2021. Since joining Microsoft in 1992, she has demonstrated exceptional leadership in both technology and business strategy, holding various technical and executive positions. Ms. Liuson currently sets and executes key technology directions for developer tools and the Microsoft Azure developer platform, serving over 50 million developers worldwide and over $10 billion in annual revenue. As part of this portfolio, Ms. Liuson also oversees GitHub, Inc., a subsidiary of Microsoft, where she spearheads the integration of AI in software engineering through GitHub Copilot. Ms. Liuson also led efforts to enhance Microsoft’s cybersecurity measures. In recognition of her impactful contributions, Ms. Liuson was inducted into the Women in Technology Hall of Fame by Woman in Technology International in 2019.

Dr. Plummer has been a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University since 1978 and served as the Dean of the Stanford School of Engineering from 1999 to 2014. Dr. Plummer has received numerous awards for his research and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Plummer directed the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility from 1994 to 2000. In 2018, he was elected to the International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices hall of fame.

Ms. Brennan has extensive financial and accounting expertise and executive leadership experience from her roles as chief financial officer and other finance positions at companies in the technology industry. In addition to her experience as a chief financial officer, Ms. Brennan contributes to the expertise of our Board from serving and having served as a member of other public company boards.

Dr. Devgan has served as CEO of Cadence since 2021, as President of Cadence since 2017 and has been a member of the Board since 2021. Prior to becoming President, he was Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Digital & Signoff and System & Verification groups at Cadence. Prior to joining Cadence in 2012, Dr. Devgan was Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Custom Design Business Unit at Magma Design Automation, Inc., an EDA company. Previous roles include management and technical positions at IBM, where he received numerous awards including the IBM Outstanding Innovation Award. Dr. Devgan is the recipient of the IEEE/SEMI Phil Kaufman Award, has been inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, is an IEEE Fellow, has written numerous research papers, and holds several patents.

Dr. Sangiovanni-VincentelliI was a co-founder of SDA Systems, Inc., a predecessor of Cadence. Dr. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has been a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley since 1976. He has also served as the President of Fondazione Chips-IT since December 2023. Dr. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998 and received the Kaufman Award from the Electronic Design Automation Consortium in 2001, the IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Medal for his exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical engineering or related fields in 2008, the ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in EDA in 2009, the EDAA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers Knowledge Award in Information and Communications Technologies in 2023 for transforming chip design from a handcrafted process to the automated industry that power today’s electronic devices. He holds four Honorary Doctorates from Aalborg University in Denmark, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, AGH University of Krakow in Poland and University of Rome in Italy.