Nassda Corporation (Nasdaq: NSDA) today announced major appointments to its executive ranks to support greater product adoption and growth in its worldwide customer base. Dermott Lynch has been promoted to vice president, U.S. sales, and Susanne Hampe has been hired as the European general manager. In these new positions, both Lynch and Hampe report to Nassda CEO, Sang Wang.
John Yelinek, who has been responsible for building Nassdas sales and support team since joining the company in January 2000, has been appointed to the new role of vice president of major accounts from his previous role as vice president for world-wide sales. Yelinek will continue to focus on expanding business with Nassdas largest and most important customers who require its advanced nanometer verification and analysis technology.
Sang Wang, CEO, stated, Our customers, including 25 out of the top 25 world-wide semiconductor companies, have been adopting Nassda tools and require greater support. We are dedicating executive resources to oversee each regions sales and support operations, including major accounts.
Wang continued, Dermott and Susanne are savvy veterans of the EDA industry with acute knowledge of their respective regions sales cycles, customer expectations and sales potential. Both are highly qualified to help bring Nassdas sales to the next level while providing world-class support to large customers with international design sites. With Dermott and Susanne on board in these new positions, we are targeting to increase sales activity, user satisfaction and customer support.
About Dermott Lynch
Lynch was formerly the director of Northwest sales at Nassda. He is an 18 year veteran of the EDA industry, and served as vice president of business development at Sente until its merger with Sequence Design.
Before Sente, he was director of technical marketing and Western region sales manager at Quad Design. Lynch has also held sales and engineering positions at Ashling Microsystems, Elcor Associates and Contec Microelectronics. Lynch will oversee domestic sales from Nassdas corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
