SANTA CLARA, Calif. - January 31, 2006 - Industry veteran Holly Stump has joined EDA power leader Sequence Design as its new vice president of marketing. Stump, with more than 20 years in EDA and high-tech, is responsible for corporate, product and strategic marketing tasks, reporting directly to Sequence president and CEO, Vic Kulkarni.

"Holly comes to us at an exciting time," Kulkarni said. "Her charter and capabilities are fundamental as we launch the company to the next level of success."

Stump's experience runs the gamut of high tech B2B marketing, business development, channel management, and international sales experience in the EDA, semiconductor and electronics industries. She is a veteran of several successful EDA startups which have been acquired by industry leaders. As a co-founder of Logic Modeling Systems (now Synopsys), she built the marketing organization and channel relationships which led to over $7 million in revenues in the first year of shipment; did major accounts sales; and set up Asian sales and support operations as managing director based in Tokyo. As vice president of sales and marketing at Precedence (now Mentor Graphics), Stump signed several key channel deals, grew revenues by a factor of 4, and helped the company move from a consulting to product focus. As vice president of marketing at Interconnectix, her team expanded the product line and supported acquisition by Mentor Graphics. She has also held marketing and business development positions at Cadence Design Systems, IKOS, Valid Logic Systems, and eMedius. Stump began her career designing ICs at HP, and earned her BSEE at Illinois Institute of Technology (cum laude), and MS Engineering Management at Stanford University.

"Sequence has the right market, the right technology, and the right team," Stump said. "The company is primed for success given its focus on power-aware design at 90nm and below. The customer value and technology are unparalled, and I am enthusiastic about the opportunity to accelerate corporate growth."

About Sequence

Sequence Design accelerates the ability of SoC designers to bring high-performance, power-aware ICs quickly to market. Sequence's power and signal- integrity software solutions give customers the competitive advantage necessary to excel in aggressive technology markets, despite the demanding complexity and time-to-market issues of nanometer design. Sequence serves 9 of the top 10 semiconductor companies and over 130 customers worldwide, in application segments such as consumer, wireless, mobile computing, multimedia, cell phones, digital cameras, network-on-chip processors, and other power-sensitive markets. The company was named by Reed Electronics as one of the top 10 companies to watch in the electronics industry, and was recently selected as one of high-tech's Top 100 companies by siliconindia magazine. Sequence has worldwide development and field-service operations and is privately held. Please see sequencedesign.com.