Julia Liuson

Julia Liuson has served as a director of Cadence since 2021. Ms. Liuson has served as Corporate Vice President of Microsoft since 2012. Ms. Liuson has served in several technical and executive roles since joining Microsoft in 1992, and currently sets technology and business strategy, as well as leads the development of products that include Visual Studio, .NET Framework, and developer platform services for Microsoft Azure. Ms. Liuson was the first woman promoted to Corporate Vice President of Development at Microsoft, and is a role model and champion of improving diversity and inclusion in STEM—both at Microsoft and through her charitable work. In 2019, Women in Technology International inducted Ms. Liuson into the Women in Technology Hall of Fame.