Penny Herscher

Current

• Board Director at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte
• President & CEO at firstRain
• Board of Trustees at Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology

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Past

• GM & CMO at Cadence Design Systems
• President & CEO (& Chair) at Simplex
• GM, VP Marketing at Synopsys

• Director Marketing at Synopsys
• R&D at Daisy Systems

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Education

• University of Cambridge
• Wycombe Abbey School

Recommended

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Connections

331 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company
• Facebook

Penny Herscher’s Summary

Enjoying being a CEO again - this time developing a semantic search product designed to help business professionals (investors, sales people, marketing people) find useful information on companies, their markets and business topics from the web

Penny Herscher’s Specialties:

Executive management, marketing, sales in semiconductor and software.

Penny Herscher’s Experience

• Board Director

  Planned Parenthood Mar Monte

  (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  2007 — Present (2 years )

• President & CEO

  firstRain

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  December 2004 — Present (5 years )

• Board of Trustees

  Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology

  (Computer Software industry)

  2003 — Present (6 years )

• GM & CMO

  Cadence Design Systems

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CDNS; Semiconductors industry)

  2002 — 2003 (1 year )

• President & CEO (& Chair)

  Simplex

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 2002 (6 years )

  Built Simplex from $0 to $50M in revenue in the EDA space. Took the company public in May 2001, sold to Cadence for $300M in June 2002. Worked with a spectacular group of people, developed great, long lasting relationships with our customers and still hold parties for the Alumni.

• GM, VP Marketing

  Synopsys

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SNPS; Semiconductors industry)

  1993 — 1996 (3 years )

• Director Marketing

  Synopsys

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Semiconductors industry)

  1988 — 1993 (5 years )

• R&D

  Daisy Systems

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Semiconductors industry)

  1984 — 1988 (4 years )

Penny Herscher’s Education

• University of Cambridge

  BA HONS , Mathematics , 1979 — 1982

• Wycombe Abbey School

  1972 — 1979

Additional Information

Penny Herscher’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company
• Facebook

Penny Herscher’s Interests:

kids, travel, books, movies, cooking, family

Penny Herscher’s Groups:

•    synopsys employees & alumni
•    Cambridge University Alumni Group
•    Investorside Research Association
•    Simplex Solutions Alumni

Penny Herscher’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch