Board of Directors

Dr. Walden C. Rhines

Dr. Rhines has been Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since 2000, and was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company from 1993 to 2000. He is currently a director of TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. (manufacturer of semiconductors), and served as a director of Cirrus Logic, Inc. (manufacturer of semiconductors) from 1995 to 2009. Dr. Rhines is currently in his fifth term as chair of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium. He is also a board member of the Semiconductor Research Corporation. He has previously served as chair of the Semiconductor Technical Advisory Committee of the Department of Commerce, and as a member of the boards of directors of the Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers' Association (CBEMA), SEMI-Sematech/SISA (a semiconductor equipment suppliers board), University of Michigan National Advisory Council, Lewis and Clark College and SEMATECH.

Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, Dr. Rhines was Executive Vice President, Semiconductor Group of Texas Instruments Incorporated from 1987 to 1993. During a 21-year career at Texas Instruments, he held numerous executive and management positions. He was co-inventor of a patented invention that is fundamental to solid state lighting and DVDs.

José Maria Alapont

Mr. Alapont has been president, chief executive officer and a director of Federal-Mogul Corporation, an automotive and industrial equipment supplier, since March 2005. Mr. Alapont served as chairman of the board of directors of Federal-Mogul from 2005 to 2007. He has more than 35 years of global leadership experience in both vehicle manufacturers and suppliers with business and operations responsibilities in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa regions.

From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Alapont was chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Fiat IVECO, a manufacturer of light, medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicles, engines, passenger transport, defense and fire-fighting vehicles.

He served in various key executive positions at Delphi Corporation, a global automotive supplier from 1997 to 2003. He began at Delphi as executive director of international operations. In 1999, Mr. Alapont was named president of Delphi Europe, Middle East and Africa and a vice president of Delphi Corporation and also became a member of the Delphi Strategy Board, that company’s top policy-making group. In 2003, Mr. Alapont was named president of Delphi’s international operations, and vice president of sales and marketing.

Mr. Alapont, from 1990 to 1997, served in several executive roles and was a member of the Strategy Board at Valeo, a global automotive supplier. He started at Valeo as managing director of engine cooling systems, Spain. In 1991, Mr. Alapont was named executive director of Valeo’s worldwide heavy-duty engine cooling operations. In 1992, he became group vice president of Valeo’s worldwide clutch and transmission components division. He was named group vice president of the company’s worldwide lighting systems division in 1996.

Mr. Alapont began and developed his automotive career from 1974 to 1989 at Ford Motor Company, and over the course of 15 years, starting at Ford of Spain, progressed through different management and executive positions in quality, testing and validation, manufacturing and purchasing positions at Ford of Europe.

Sir Peter Bonfield

Sir Peter Bonfield has been an international business advisor since 2002. He served as Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer of British Telecommunications PLC (a provider of telecom services) from 1996 to 2002 and before that served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ICL plc (a UK-based information technology company). Sir Peter is a director of Sony Corporation (a worldwide provider of electronics, games, music, movies and financial services), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (a manufacturer of semiconductors), Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (a telecommunications equipment manufacturer), and Actis LLP (a private equity investor in emerging markets); and is a Chairman of NXP Semiconductors (a semiconductor company). He previously served as a director of AstraZeneca PLC (a pharmaceuticals company) from 1995 to 2007. He is a senior advisor to N.M. Rothschild London and a member of the advisory boards of the Longreach Group and New Venture Partners. He has received numerous honors for his contributions to business, including a knighthood.

Sir Peter has extensive international business and CEO experience.

Gregory K. Hinckley

Gregory K. Hinckley serves as President and interim Chief Financial Officer of Mentor Graphics Corporation, a publicly traded provider of electronic design automation solutions. Prior to Mentor Graphics, he served as Chief Financial Officer for two other publicly traded companies—VLSI Technology, Inc. and Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.

Mr. Hinckley is a director of SI-Bone, Inc. (a privately held orthopedic device company), a director of Intermec, Inc. (a publicly traded provider of automated identification and data collection (AIDC) solutions), a director of Super Micro (a publicly traded provider of advanced computer server systems and subsystems) and is an advisory director of Portland State University Engineering School.

Mr. Hinckley holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from Claremont McKenna College, a Master of Science degree in applied physics from University of California, an MBA degree from Harvard Business School, and was a Fulbright Scholar in applied mathematics at Nottingham University in England. He is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Kevin McDonough

Mr. McDonough has been President of Kammstone LLC (a consulting firm providing services to the electronics industry) since 2002. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of ChipData, Inc. (an internet service company) from 1999 to 2002; Vice President and General Manager of National Semiconductor Corporation (a manufacturer of electronic components) from 1997 to 1999; and Senior Vice President of Engineering of Cyrix Corporation (a manufacturer of microprocessors) from 1989 to 1997. Mr. McDonough spent 15 years in various semiconductor design and product development roles at Texas Instruments, where he was listed as inventor on 23 patents.

McDonough has CEO experience running a software company serving the electronics design market. He has extensive engineering experience in semiconductor design.

Patrick B. McManus

Mr. McManus has been a private investor since 1987. He was Chief Financial Officer of Charles Schwab Corporation from 1984 to 1987, and Chief Financial Officer of various companies prior to 1984 including Univest, Pacific Express Airlines, Acurex Solar Corporation and Itel Corporation. Earlier in his career, he was controller of the African and Middle East division of Singer Corporation.

Mr. McManus has strong financial credentials that he brings to his role as Chair of our Audit Committee, and broad business experience, including international experience.

Gary Meyers

Mr. Meyers has been a director of Exar Corporation, a public semiconductor company serving the datacom, storage, consumer and industrial markets, since May 2008. Mr. Meyers also currently sits on the board of directors of Oasys Design Systems, a private supplier of EDA software tools. Mr. Meyers served as Vice President and General Manager, Synplicity Business Group of Synopsys, Inc., a leading supplier of electronic design automation software, from May 2008 through April 2010.

Prior to its acquisition by Synopsys in May 2008, Mr. Meyers served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Synplicity, Inc. ("Synplicity"), a public supplier of EDA tools serving the programmable logic market since October 2004, and as a member of the board of directors of Synplicity since January 2005. From August 2004 to October 2004, he served as Synplicity's President and Chief Operating Officer, and from November 1999 to August 2004, Mr. Meyers served as Synplicity’s Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Mr. Meyers served on the board of directors of SpiraTech Limited, a UK-based EDA tool supplier, prior to its acquisition by Mentor Graphics. He also held a number of different executive management positions at LSI Corporation, a provider of silicon, systems and software technologies.

David Schechter

Mr. Schechter currently is responsible for co-executing a small/mid cap investment strategy across all industries as a Portfolio Manager of the Sargon Portfolio for Icahn Capital LP, the entity through which Carl C. Icahn manages third party investment funds. Prior to April 2010, Mr. Schechter served as a Managing Director for Icahn Capital LP and in a variety of investment advisory roles for Mr. Icahn since 2004, providing investment and strategic advice across multiple industries, asset classes, and geographies. Mr. Schechter serves on the board of directors of The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., a natural and organic food and personal care products company, Federal-Mogul, an automotive and industrial equipment supplier, WestPoint International, Inc., a manufacturer of bed and bath home fashion products, and XO Holdings, Inc., a telecommunications services provider. With respect to each company mentioned above, Carl C. Icahn, directly or indirectly, either (i) controls the company or (ii) has an interest in the company through the ownership of securities. Mr. Schechter previously served as a director of WCI Communities, Inc., a homebuilding company, and BKF Capital Group, Inc., an investment advisory business.

Prior to joining Mr. Icahn in January 2004, Mr. Schechter served as a Vice President of Global Special Situations at Citigroup, a unit responsible for making proprietary investments in distressed situations.