picoChip Designs Ltd. (UK) announced that it has appointed Guillaume d'Eyssautier to be the company’s Chief Executive Officer. Guillaume joins picoChip from Cadence Design Systems, where he was Senior Vice President and General Manager EMEA. Before that, he was General Manager EMEA for IBM Technology Group, which included IBM Microelectronics.
picoChip Co-Founder and COO Peter Claydon commented, "We founded picoChip with the vision of being a major player in wireless, and we are delighted to appoint a CEO who has the ideal pedigree to capitalize on this. With an impeccable track record of senior management positions within blue-chip semiconductor and design companies, it would be difficult to imagine a better candidate than Guillaume to lead picoChip as it moves up to the next level in its evolution."
