What Happened?
San Jose, CA-based Cadence promoted Jim Cowie to GC.
About the Company
Cadence is a leading provider of EDA and semiconductor IP. Our custom/analog tools help engineers design the transistors, standard cells, and IP blocks that make up SoCs. Our digital tools automate the design and verification of giga-scale, giga-hertz SoCs at the latest semiconductor processing nodes. Our IC packaging and PCB tools permit the design of complete boards and subsystems. Cadence also offers a growing portfolio of design IP and verification IP for memories, interface protocols, analog/mixed-signal components, and specialized processors. And reaching up to the systems level, Cadence offers an integrated suite of hardware/software co-development platforms. In short, Cadence® technology helps customers build great products that connect the world.
About the Person
Jim Cowie is the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Cadence. Cowie is responsible for Cadence worldwide legal operations, covering matters such as commercial transactions, corporate governance, employment, export compliance, finance, government affairs, intellectual property, litigation, mergers and acquisitions and stock administration activities. Under his leadership, his organization deploys professionals in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Japan and North America. Cowie, who has been with Cadence since 2000, most recently served as Corporate Vice President - Business Development and Associate General Counsel, a role in which he was responsible for the execution of Cadence's acquisitions, divestitures and other strategic transactions as well as being the company's lead lawyer for corporate and securities matters. Before joining Cadence, Cowie was counsel for several divisions of National Data Corporation, a provider of health information services and electronic commerce solutions, and before that was an associate at Troutman Sanders LLP in Atlanta. Cowie received his undergraduate degree in Economics, magna cum laude, from Duke University and his Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School. Before law school, he served four years of active duty in the United States Navy, the last 3 years aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, leaving active service as a Lieutenant.
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