NextOp Software Hires Craig Shirley as Vice President of Worldwide Sales

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NextOp Software, Inc. today announced that Craig Shirley has joined the company as vice president of worldwide sales. Mr. Shirley will lead the company's sales organization to extend its leadership in assertion-based verification software.

With over 20 years of executive sales and technical management experience, Mr. Shirley most recently served as Apache Design Solutions' vice president of worldwide sales, achieving a compound annual revenue growth rate of over 25% during his tenure.  Prior to Apache, Mr. Shirley was vice president of worldwide sales and support at Jasper Design Automation.  Mr. Shirley also served as vice president of North American sales at Verisity Ltd., where he scaled the worldwide sales process to drive the startup to become a $70 million company and the best performing IPO of 2001.  Prior to Verisity, Mr. Shirley held various sales management positions within the EDA industry.  Mr. Shirley graduated with honors from Auburn University with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering.

"Craig has an outstanding track record of maximizing customers' successful adoption of emerging technologies," said Yunshan Zhu, president and CEO of NextOp Software, Inc. "We are delighted to have Craig join our team in a leadership role as we continue to increase adoption and proliferation of our BugScope assertion synthesis product throughout the semiconductor industry."

"Functional verification continues to be a critical bottleneck in semiconductor design," said Craig Shirley. "NextOp Software has pioneered automatic assertion synthesis, which enables the broad proliferation of assertion-based verification methodologies.  I am excited to help leading companies benefit from this technology."

About NextOp Software

NextOp Software, Inc. is focused on delivering assertion-based verification solutions that allow design and verification teams to uncover bugs, expose functional coverage holes, and increase verification observability. NextOp's BugScope assertion synthesis is the first product to automatically generate whitebox assertions and functional coverage properties in SVA, PSL and Verilog formats. BugScope's properties are used to drive progressive, targeted verification via robust, executable design specifications for existing simulation, formal and emulation flows. The company is headquartered at 2900 Gordon Avenue, Suite 100, Santa Clara, CA 95051. For more information, visit www.nextopsoftware.com or call +1 408-830-9885. BugScope and NextOp are trademarks of NextOp Software, Inc.

SOURCE NextOp Software, Inc.

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