Sassine Ghazi

Sassine first joined Synopsys in 1998 and currently serves as the chief operating officer. In this role, he leads our market-leading EDA and IP business groups, our exceptional sales and marketing organization, and the industry’s finest customer success teams, delivering technology differentiation and high-value innovation to enable our customers’ ambitious objectives. Sassine brings multiple decades of experience in chip design, applications engineering, customer support, sales, and business management. Most recently, he was general manager of the Design Group. Before Synopsys, he worked at Intel as a design engineer. Sassine received his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Lebanese American University; a B.S.E.E from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1993; and an M.S.E.E. from the University of Tennessee in 1995.