International Expansion includes New Sales and Support Team

Munich, Germany, DATE 2006.— March 7, 2006 – Zenasis Technologies is today announcing significant expansion, with the launch of a European operation and a new pan-European team. Industry veteran Paul Gibson joins as General Manager and Vice President of Sales, Europe, and he will lead a highly experienced team which includes strong technical support as well as sales expertise. Paul noted, "Having listened to the issues many of my customers were experiencing with design closure, I am delighted to join Zenasis, and be associated with such a significant solution through this advance in design optimization."

Paul Gibson brings to Zenasis over 21 years’ of operations and sales experience in the semiconductor and EDA sector. He has been responsible for establishing many EDA products across the European electronics industry. Most recently, as Vice President, European Operations at Synchronicity (purchased by MatrixOne), he helped establish effective global standards for design data management and Intellectual Property (IP) reuse. Previously Paul held senior positions at companies such as Cadence, Viewlogic, Intel and European Silicon Structures.

Joining Paul as Solutions Architect, Zeljko Tufekcic has significant expertise in technical sales and support roles within the EDA and semiconductor IP industries over the last 10 years. He joins Zenasis from Virage Logic Corporation, where he provided World-wide sales support for the logic libraries product line and, as European Support Services Manager, developed customer support and training initiatives. Before joining Virage Logic, Zeljko was a Senior Applications Engineer at Cadence Design Systems.

In addition, Paul Nottingham has been appointed European Technical Director. Prior to joining Zenasis, Paul served as European Director of High Tech Solutions for the MatrixOne following its acquisition of Synchronicity in 2004. Whilst at Synchronicity, as European Technical Manager, he was responsible for solution development and technology deployments across many of the biggest semiconductor, fabless and COT companies. Prior to Synchronicity, Paul was the European Technical Manager for Escalade Corp and previously worked in the IC test area for VEDA and with Viewlogic. Dennis Harmon, Chief Executive Officer of Zenasis, said, "We are very pleased to have been able to recruit such an experienced and talented team and I know that they are already geared-up to fully exploit the vast business potential for Zenasis technology which is already evident in Europe."

About Zenasis Technologies
Zenasis Technologies, Inc. provides next-generation design optimization tools for standard cell-based design, which help bridge the gap between ASIC and custom IC designs. Zenasis' ZenTime family of applications apply context-specific "hybrid optimization technology" operating simultaneously at the gate, physical and transistor levels for a given design placement, and empowers designers to improve performance, help achieve timing closure, area and power reduction. They are complemented by ZenTime-CT, an automatic standard cell creation flow. Zenasis helps cell-based designers and library development teams meet the demands for higher performance; faster timing closure and cost-reduction without changing their existing process technology or design flows. Corporate headquarters is located at 2665, North First Street, San Jose, CA 95345, USA. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.zenasis.com/. Zenasis, ZenTime, are trademarks of Zenasis

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