Bob Wiederhold Chairman, President & CEO

Bob brings over 20 years of software-related, high technology experience to the company. Until 2001, Bob served as President and CEO of Tality Corporation, the worldwide leader in electronic design services whose revenues grew to $200M and had 1,500 employees worldwide. Bob also held several executive general management positions at Cadence Design Systems Inc., an electronic design automation company he joined in 1985 as a small start-up, and helped grow to over $1B during his 13 years at the company. From 1993 through 1996, Bob also headed High Level Design Systems, a successful electronic design automation start-up that was acquired by Cadence in 1996. Most recently, Bob served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital, a leading venture capital firm in Silicon Valley.

“That virtualization has 'arrived' and is driving server consolidation and disaster recovery in the data center is a given. In terms of virtualization, companies are beginning to look at legacy hardware and evaluate moving those workloads to newer and more powerful platforms.”

John Enck
Research Vice President
Gartner