Paul McLellan has a 40 year background in semiconductor and EDA with both deep technical knowledge and extensive business experience. Paul was educated in Britain and spent the early part of his career as a software engineer at VLSI Technology both in California and France, eventually becoming CEO of Compass Design Automation. Since then he was VP engineering at Ambit, corporate VP at Cadence, VPs of marketing at VaST Systems Technology and Virtutech, and CEO at Envis Corporation. He rejoined Cadence in 2015 and has written the Breakfast Bytes blog daily ever since.