Andrew Haines
Senior Vice President of Marketing

Andrew Haines re-joined Synplicity as vice president of marketing in September 2004. His responsibilities include overseeing world-wide marketing activities and expanding Synplicity's leadership role in the FPGA synthesis market. Mr. Haines originally joined Synplicity in 1996 as the company's vice president of marketing and remained in that capacity until 2002, when he departed to pursue interests in the semiconductor intellectual property (IP) industry.

Mr. Haines has more than 29 years experience in marketing high-technology semiconductor and electronic design automation products. Most recently, he served as vice president of business operations at Catalytic, Inc., a DSP Design Automation company. He also served as senior vice president of marketing at ARC International. Before joining Synplicity in 1996, Mr. Haines was president and founder of Page Mill Marketing. Haines also held the position of director of marketing at Actel Corp. and held marketing management positions at VLSI Technology and Intel.

Mr. Haines holds a B.S. in physics from the University of Wisconsin.