Tom Powell

Senior Architect with over 25 years of experience at Synopsys, supporting all major functional verification technologies. Proven track record in driving successful technology evaluations, deployments and competitive displacements at major customers. Strong personal, account management and leadership skills for building long lasting customer and internal relationships, managing account activity at major customers and mentoring junior engineers to achieve successful outcomes. Expert in RTL and gate level simulation, test bench, debug, coverage closure and power analysis technologies and methodologies. Effective in dual roles as both an individual contributor and manager of the area FAE team.

Built strong customer relationships over 25+ years with all key customers in Central US area accounts

Successfully managed all account activities at major customers using Synopsys Functional Verification technologies

Successful competitive evaluations and displacements at multiple major customers for Synopsys functional verification technologies.

Maintained and grew annual run-rate in major accounts by providing high quality support and superior account management activities