Joe Gianelli
Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Alliances

Joe Gianelli joined Synplicity in April 1998, and has served as Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Alliances since June 2004. Mr. Gianelli is responsible for all strategic alliances, including development and marketing agreements with key silicon, IP, and EDA partners. Prior to this appointment he has held positions within Synplicity as Director of Channel Marketing and Director of Strategic Alliances.

Since joining Synplicity Mr. Gianelli has vastly expanded Synplicity's portfolio of strategic alliances and has assisted in our two technology acquisitions. He has dramatically increased FPGA OEM revenue over the past 8 years and more recently is responsible for architecting key alliances in the emerging hardware assisted verification market. He has built Synplicity's strategic alliance portfolio into a highly respected example of close collaboration between EDA and semiconductor industries.

Prior to joining Synplicity, Mr. Gianelli has held various engineering, sales and marketing positions in the EDA industry over the past 20 years at Daisy Systems, ECAD, Cadence, Meta Software, Epic Design and Synopsys.