Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000883241-25-000008
Chunk: 9

Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 9
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ine Ghazi       |
|                                                                                                  |     | Luis Borgen         |     | Janice D. Chaffin |     | Bruce R. Chizen     |
|                                                                                                  |     | Mercedes Johnson    |     | Robert G. Painter |     | Jeannine P. Sargent |

Each nominee has consented to being named as a nominee and has accepted the nomination and agreed to serve as a director if elected. All of the director nominees are current directors. The Board believes that each nominee will be able and willing to serve if elected. However, if any nominee is unable to serve or, for good cause, will not serve between the date of this Proxy Statement and the Annual Meeting, the Board may designate a new nominee, and the persons named as proxy holders may vote for the substitute nominee. Alternatively, the Board may reduce the size of the Board.

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| Corporate Governance |

Board of Directors

#### Board Nominee Snapshot
(As of April 10, 2025, the date of the Annual Meeting, assuming all director nominees are elected)

| GENDER    
 DIVERSITY |     | TENURE |     | INDEPENDENCE |

#### SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

#### 2025 Proxy Statement13
| Corporate Governance |

#### Our Director Nominees
Information regarding our nominees, including information they have furnished as to their principal occupations, certain other directorships they hold, or have held, their ages as of February 10, 2025 (the Record Date), and our Lead Independent Director and committee composition as of the conclusion of the Annual Meeting, is set forth below. The section titled “Director Nominations” on page 20of this Proxy Statement provides additional information on the director nomination process. The nominee descriptions below contain information about the experience, qualifications and skills that led the Governance Committee to determine that these nominees should serve as our directors.

Other than Mr. Ghazi and Dr. de Geus, all nominees are independent as determined by the Board of Directors under our Corporate Governance Guidelines, applicable federal securities law and the Nasdaq Listing Standards. There are no family relationships among any of the director nominees, directors and/or any of Synopsys’ executive officers. In addition, no nominee has an arrangement or understanding with another person under which he or she was or is to be selected as a director or nominee.

| Dr. Aart J. de Geus| Executive Chair of the Board of Directors                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
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