Anne Cirkel
Anne Cirkel is an electronic design automation industry executive, who is currently Senior Director for Technology Marketing at Mentor, a Siemens Business. 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 (Viewlogic was acquired by Synopsys in 1997.) In 1999 she moved to Portland, Oregon, to work for Analogy (now part of Synopsys) and the same year she was offered a job at Mentor's Wilsonville, Oregon headquarters.