Founder steps aside as Cynergy CEO

Founder steps aside as Cynergy CEO
By Richard Goering, EE Times
August 28, 2001 (5:21 p.m. EST)
URL: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010828S0093

AUSTIN, Texas — Cynergy System Design Inc., a startup looking to become a major provider of high-level verification tools, has named Thomas Robert Conn Jr. as its new president and chief executive officer.

Conn, a longtime veteran of Motorola Inc., replaces company founder Prem Jain as chief executive of Cynergy, formerly called CAE Systems Inc. Jain will become chairman and chief technology officer of the company, which provides clock-accurate C language design tools and models for embedded hardware and software verification.

Conn held various operational and managerial positions at Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector, where he worked for 20 years. Before joining Cynergy, he was vice president and general manager of Motorola's Imaging Systems Division.

Cynergy has also named Steven Smith as its vice president of engineering. Smith, who has 20 years of engineering experience, joins Cynergy fr om digital video provider Salient Systems Corp.