Anne Cirkel


Anne Cirkel is an electronic design automation industry executive, who is currently Senior Director for Technology Marketing at Mentor, a Siemens Business.

Early life and career

Annie Cirkel was born in Eschweiler, Germany and earned degrees in metallurgy, economics and business administration from Aachen University.
Her EDA career started with a position at Viewlogic in their field office in Munich, Germany In 1999, she moved to Portland, Oregon, to work for Analogy and the same year she was offered a job at Mentor's Wilsonville, Oregon headquarters.
Cirkel served as general chair of the 2015 Design Automation Conference.

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