Young K. Sohn

Young K. Sohn has served as a director of Cadence since 2013. Mr. Sohn has served as a senior advisor at Samsung Electronics, a consumer electronics company, since 2021, as a founding managing partner at Walden Catalyst Management LLC, a venture capital firm, since November 2021. Mr. Sohn previously served as Corporate President and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung Electronics from 2012 to 2020. Mr. Sohn also served as a senior advisor at Silver Lake Management LLC, a private investment firm, from 2012 to January 2021, and at Inphi Corporation, a provider of high-speed mixed signal semiconductor solutions, from 2012 to 2013, and as President and Chief Executive Officer from 2007 to 2012. Prior to joining Inphi Corporation, Mr. Sohn served as President of Agilent Technologies, Inc.’s Semiconductor Group from 2003 until 2005, as Chief Executive Officer of Oak Technology, Inc. from 1999 until it was acquired by Zoran Corporation in 2003, and in executive positions at Quantum Corporation from 1992 to 1999, including co-President and General Manager.