News Release

EVE Promotes Tsugumi Fujitani to Vice President of Japan and Asia Sales, Names Masao Fujimoto to the Role of General Manager of Nihon EVE K.K.

Moves Designed to Help Manage Rapid Growth

EVE, the leader in hardware/software co-verification, today promoted Tsugumi Fujitani to the position of vice president of Japan and Asia Sales and appointed Masao Fujimoto general manager of EVE K.K., a wholly owned subsidiary based in Yokohama, Japan.

With the promotion, Fujitani, formerly general manager of EVE K.K., has relocated to EVE's United States headquarters in Santa Clara, while Fujimoto will be based in Yokohama office.

In making today's announcement, Keith Hopkins, vice president of worldwide sales, explains that these moves are designed to help EVE better manage its rapid growth. "Both Tsugumi Fujitani and Masao Fujimoto are exceptionally gifted sales executives with solid track records of success. ZeBu is in use today by 20 Japanese customers, including all the major semiconductor and system companies, a credit to Fujitani's extraordinary skills."

Fujitani has more than 20 years of technical and executive management experience in the electronics and electronic design automation (EDA) industry. Before joining EVE in 2004, she managed Tera Systems' operations in Japan. Previously, she was chief executive officer (CEO) and co-founder of Spinnaker Systems, a leader in digital integrated circuit (IC) design automation technology. Fujitani began her career as an application engineer (AE) at Hitachi, Ltd. She moved to Okura, Ltd., where she served as an AE manager.

Fujimoto has more than 10 years of sales experience in the semiconductor industry. Most recently, he was senior sales manager in Japan at MoSys International Inc., a semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider. He also served as sales manager at Denali Software K.K., and was a senior manager at Spinnaker Systems Inc. Fujimoto began his career as sales representative at ALTEX.

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For more information about EVE and ZeBu, contact Lauro Rizzatti, general manager of EVE USA. He can be reached at (408) 855-3201 or via email at lauro@eve-team.com.