Jim Hogan was managing partner of Vista Ventures, LLC., and an experienced senior executive who worked in the semiconductor design and manufacturing industry for more than 40 years. He served on numerous boards of directors for private electronic design automation, intellectual property, semiconductor equipment, material science and IT companies and acted as a strategic advisor for private and public companies.

“Jim was one of the pillars of the EDA industry,” asserts Joe Costello, former CEO of Cadence Design Systems and the 2004 Phil Kaufman Award recipient. “He was instrumental in building Cadence to be the leader in the EDA market and creating the mixed-signal analog division that dominates the market to this day.”

“After leaving Cadence, Jim may have had an even greater impact on EDA,” he continues. “Those were difficult years for small EDA companies and startups. Jim was a board member, advisor, and investor in more EDA companies than any other person in the last 15 years. It is no exaggeration to say that EDA and EDA technology would not be where it is today without Jim’s guiding hand. And despite all of his prodigious accomplishments, Jim remained the most humble, easy-going, likable person in the industry to the very last day.”

According to Jan Goodsell, Quadric.IO  ’s senior director of business development: “Jim generously provided insightful, kind and warm advice across our industry. No one can surpass the combined technical, business and personal contributions that Jim made to our industry, and to so many of us in it.”

In addition to his investment, board, and advisory activities, Jim was a true philanthropist who devoted his time and money to the welfare of others, often through his Heart of Technology (HOT) organization. An accomplished musician, in recent years Jim organized and performed at the HOT event at the annual SEMICON West and Design Automation Conference (DAC) to raise money for his charities.

“Jim remained enthusiastic about helping entrepreneurs and new technologies,” remarks Bernard Murphy, content marketing advisor and author. “He was an active promoter of innovation in our industry and an inspiration to many nascent entrepreneurs. I am hard-pressed to imagine anyone more deserving of this award.”