Stan Krolikoski

Current

• Group Director, Standards and Interoperability at Cadence

Past

• CEO at ChipVision Design Systems
• Various VP-level positions at Cadence Design Systems
• Chief Technologist/ Senior Fellow at Compass Design Automation

• VP Engineering at CAD Language Systems Inc.
• Advisory Engineer at IBM
• Senior Section Manager/Architect at Honeywell

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Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Stan Krolikoski’s Experience

• Group Director, Standards and Interoperability

  Cadence

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  2006 — Present (2 years)

• CEO

  ChipVision Design Systems

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2003 — November 2006 (3 years 6 months)

  Established the infrasructure (sales, marketing, finance and R&D organizations) of ChipVision. Oversaw the transition from research software to real product, and the growth of the company from 5 to 25 people. Moved the company from initial targeted evaluations to first sales. Recently led a sucessful $6,2M series B funding effort.

• Various VP-level positions

  Cadence Design Systems

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CDNS; Computer Software industry)

  May 1996 — June 2003 (7 years 2 months)

  Multiple executive roles, including Senior Architect, VP Marketing, VP Business Operations. Began as a senior technical individual contributor. Eventually ran the marketing group for the system-level design organization, which sold SPW. Played key role in the marketing and proliferation of the VCC product, one of the few organically grown Cadence products

• Chief Technologist/ Senior Fellow

  Compass Design Automation

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1993 — 1996 (3 years)

  Initially Responsible for setting direction in the HDL simulation area. Eventually served as Chief Technologist reporting to the CEO.

• VP Engineering

  CAD Language Systems Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 1991 — June 1993 (2 years 2 months)

  Responsible for development of the company’s "VTIP" VHDL front end and VHDL simulation products.

• Advisory Engineer

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  1989 — 1991 (2 years)

  Worked as a senior developer on various software projects including the one of first VHDL simulators.

• Senior Section Manager/Architect

  Honeywell

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 1985 — April 1989 (4 years)

  Led the team that developed “V-Synth”, the first HDL-based behavioral synthesis tool. Later managed a team developing SW productivity tools.

Stan Krolikoski’s Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Ph.D., Computer Science, 1980 — 1985

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Ph.D., Philosophy, 1973 — 1976

• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

  Licentiate, Philosophy, 1971 — 1973

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