Nimish Modi

Nimish Modi serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Strategy and New Ventures of Cadence and is responsible for corporate strategy, corporate and strategic marketing and industry standards. Modi also heads New Ventures and leads the Molecular Sciences Group which includes the OpenEye Scientific business and is also responsible for Cadence Cloud and Mergers & Acquisitions. Prior to this role, he was Senior Vice President of research and development for the System & Software Realization Group at Cadence where he had responsibility for products and solutions in the areas of systems design and verification, package and board design, hardware/software co-development and system verification.

Prior to joining Cadence in 2006, Modi spent 18 years at Intel Corporation, where he was most recently a vice president in the Enterprise Platforms Group with responsibility for the company’s server CPU development.

Modi holds a BE in electrical engineering from the University of Bombay and a MS degree in computer engineering from Virginia Tech.