Shankar Krishnamoorthy — CEO

Shankar Krishnamoorthy is the Chief Product Development Officer of Synopsys, an industry-leading company delivering engineering solutions from silicon to systems powering the era of pervasive intelligence. Shankar oversees technology and product development organizations across multiple lines of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) including design, verification, emulation, prototyping, virtualization, signoff, test, TCAD, and manufacturing domains. With the recent acquisition of Ansys, Shankar also leads technology and product development in the simulation and analysis areas of Structures & Mechanical Analysis, Fluids, Thermals, Electronics, Optics, Digital and Mission Engineering. Prior to this role, Shankar held other executive positions at Synopsys, including GM of the Electronic Design Automation Group, Silicon Realization Group and Digital Design Group. Under his leadership, Synopsys has delivered several ground-breaking technologies enabling semiconductor designers to achieve the most optimum power, performance, area, cost, and time to market on their most advanced products. Before rejoining Synopsys in 2017, Shankar served as GM of the IC Design Solutions Division at Mentor Graphics. He joined Mentor in 2007 with the acquisition of Sierra Design Automation, where he was founder and CTO. Prior to Sierra Design, Shankar led Synopsys’ physical synthesis and logic synthesis R&D organizations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Electronic Design Automation and semiconductor technology.

Location: Saratoga, California, United States

Experience: 34 yrs

Skills

Product Development
Electronic Design Automation
Software Line Management
Design And Verification Software
Customer-centric Innovation
Digital Design Management
Product Delivery
Digital Implementation Solutions
Market-leading Innovations

Career Highlights

Led groundbreaking technologies in semiconductor design.
Pioneered innovations in EDA for trillion-transistor designs.
Expert in managing complex product development teams.

Work Experience

Synopsys Inc

Chief Product Development Officer (1 yr 3 mos)

GM, EDA Group & Corporate Staff (2 yrs 4 mos)

GM, Silicon Realization Group & Corporate Staff (11 mos)

GM, Digital Design Group, Corporate Staff (1 yr)

Sr. Vice President, Digital Implementation (3 yrs 2 mos)

Mentor Graphics

General Manager, IC Design Solutions (6 mos)

Chief Scientist and Head of R&D, IC Implementation (9 yrs 7 mos)

Sierra Design Automation Inc.

Founder & Chief Technical Officer (4 yrs 3 mos)

Synopsys Inc,

Various R&D Leadership Roles - Logic Synthesis, Place and Route Solutions (11 yrs)

Education

Master’s Degree at The University of Texas at Austin

B. Tech at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Shankar Krishnamoorthy

CEO

Saratoga, California, United States34 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led groundbreaking technologies in semiconductor design.
Pioneered innovations in EDA for trillion-transistor designs.
Expert in managing complex product development teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Electronic Design Automation and semiconductor technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DevelopmentElectronic Design AutomationSoftware Line ManagementDesign And Verification SoftwareCustomer-centric InnovationDigital Design ManagementProduct DeliveryDigital Implementation SolutionsMarket-leading Innovations

Other Skills

EDAAlgorithmsR&DPhysical DesignDebuggingVerificationSignoffTestTCADDesignSimulationStatic AnalysisSynthesisTest AutomationPlace & Route

About

Experience

34 yrs

Total Experience

8 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

8 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Synopsys inc

5 roles

Chief Product Development Officer

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos

Leading technology and product development organizations at Synopsys Inc. with responsibilities for researching, creating and delivering innovative, scalable, high-quality products and platforms across all design automation lines of business.

EDAAlgorithmsR&DPhysical DesignDebuggingProduct Development+1

GM, EDA Group & Corporate Staff

Sep 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Responsible for the EDA software line of business for Synopsys across design, verification, signoff, test, TCAD and manufacturing domains for digital, analog and mixed-signal designs. Working alongside an incredible team at Synopsys to pave the roadmap to trillion-transistor designs with angstrom-scale devices by optimizing from atoms to silicon to systems.

EDAVerificationSignoffTestTCADElectronic Design Automation+1

GM, Silicon Realization Group & Corporate Staff

Oct 2021 – Sep 2022 · 11 mos

As GM, I am responsible for the Synopsys design and verification software platforms. We are a customer-first team that constantly pushes the boundaries of innovation in diverse EDA areas like simulation, static analysis, debug, formal, synthesis, P&R, signoff, power, test and silicon lifecycle management.

DesignVerificationSimulationStatic AnalysisDesign and Verification SoftwareCustomer-Centric Innovation

GM, Digital Design Group, Corporate Staff

Promoted

Oct 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr

As GM, I am responsible for the Synopsys digital design business. Our team brings together the industry's finest R&D, Product Solutions, Marketing and Customer Support talent across the Synopsys digital platform innovating, delivering and deploying Synthesis, Signoff, Test Automation, Place & Route and Formal Verification solutions. We deeply value our close partnerships with our customers and partners to deliver differentiated products in their markets.

SynthesisSignoffTest AutomationPlace & RouteDigital Design ManagementProduct Delivery

Sr. Vice President, Digital Implementation

Aug 2017 – Oct 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Shankar rejoined Synopsys in August 2017 as senior vice president of Digital Implementation Solutions. His organization is responsible for the Synopsys digital design implementation suite including synthesis, place-and-route, test automation and formal verification solutions including market-leading products like Design Compiler and IC Compiler II. Under his leadership, Synopsys has delivered a string of game-changing innovations including Fusion Compiler, RTL Architect, 3DIC Compiler, TestMAX solutions, Formality ECO, Design Compiler-NXT.

SynthesisPlace-and-RouteTest AutomationFormal VerificationDigital Implementation SolutionsMarket-Leading Innovations

Mentor graphics

2 roles

General Manager, IC Design Solutions

Jan 2017 – Jul 2017 · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

The IC Design Solutions (ICDS) Division delivers the Custom Layout and RTL2GDS digital design software platforms of Mentor Graphics. Our products include Nitro-SoC P&R, Oasys RTL Synthesis, Tanner Custom Layout tools among others.