Walden C. Rhines

Walden C. Rhines is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mentor Graphics Corporation, a leader in worldwide electronic design automation with revenue of $1.2 billion in 2015. During his tenure at Mentor Graphics, revenue has nearly quadrupled, and Mentor has grown the industry’s number-one market share solutions in four of the 10 largest product segments of the EDA industry. He joined Mentor in 1993 from Texas Instruments — TI — where he was most recently Executive Vice President in charge of TI’s semiconductor business. Dr. Rhines has served five terms as Chairman of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium. He is also a board member of the Semiconductor Research Corporation, and First Growth Children and Family Charities. He received a B.S. in engineering degree from the University of Michigan, an M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, an MBA from Southern Methodist University and an Honorary Doctor of Technology degree from Nottingham Trent University.