Steve Brown is Director of Product Marketing, IP Group, at Cadence Design Systems. He has held senior marketing and engineering management positions at Cadence, Verisity, Synopsys, and Mentor Graphics. He specializes in creating product and marketing plans to enter markets and drive products to positions of market leadership. Steve earned BSEE and MSEE degrees from Oregon State University and certificates in leadership and marketing strategy at Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Kellogg, and Wharton.