Jaswinder Ahuja

Corporate VP & Managing Director, Cadence India

Ahuja is a Corporate Vice President and the Managing Director of Cadence Design Systems in India. Ahuja heads Cadence’s India Field Operations (including sales, marketing and technical customer support functions) and the India Operating Region.

Ahuja started his career with Cadence in 1988 as a software engineer and has led the India operations since 1996. Under his leadership the India center has grown from an R&D site of around 120 to a corporate resource center of over 1000 employees across R&D, Corporate IT support, Global Customer Care and Field Operations. From 2002 to 2004 Ahuja was based at Cadence headquarters in San Jose, California and was responsible for establishing and leading the Strategic R&D Partnerships and the R&D Central Operations functions for the company. From 2003 to 2008 he was responsible for the R&D Globalization Program and establishing R&D centers in Russia, China and Taiwan in addition to India.

Ahuja serves on the board of advisors of FirstRain, Inc. and Zafesoft, Inc. He has been an active member of the India Semiconductor Association, serving as Chairman in 2007-08 and on the Executive Council for several years.

Ahuja has a B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from IT-BHU, Varanasi and an MS in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, USA. He also holds an Executive MBA from Stanford University, USA.