Antun is Synopsys’ newly appointed CTO. As the company’s technical spokesperson, he will focus on aligning our advanced silicon roadmaps, driving our performance/low-power differentiation, and optimizing engineering execution across all business units. He previously served as executive vice president and general manager of the Synopsys Design Group, for which he led the development of the company's implementation and analog/mixed-signal product lines. Prior to joining Synopsys in 1997, Antun worked at Cadence Design Systems; at the Microprocessor Group of Digital Equipment Corporation in Hudson, Mass.; and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratories in Lexington, Mass. Antun holds a BS from the University of Chile in Santiago and a PhD in Mathematics from MIT.