Wolfgang Fichtner

Who is Wolfgang Fichtner?

Dr. Wolfgang Fichtner has served as Senior Vice President and

General Manager of the Silicon Engineering Group since December 2006.

Prior to that time, Dr. Fichtner was Vice President and General

Manager, TCAD products for Synopsys, from November 2004 through

December 2006. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of ISE

Integrated Systems Engineering AG, a Swiss provider of TCAD products

which he founded, from 1993 until November 2004, when the company was

acquired by Synopsys. From October 1999 to October 2004, he was

Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department at the Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology (ETH) and has served as a professor of ETH and

head of its Integrated Systems Laboratory since 1985. From 1978 until

1985, Dr. Fichtner worked in various positions at Bell Laboratories, an

electronics research organization. Dr. Fichtner holds an M.S. in

Physics and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical

University of Vienna, Austria.