Lawrence Vivolo

Lawrence Vivolo brings more than 25 years in high-technology design and marketing expertise to his role as product marketing director, emulation, at Synopsys. Prior to joining Synopsys, he was with Cadence Design Systems, where he managed the launch of a new generation of hardware-based ASIC emulators. He has also served as a product marketing manager with Intergraph Computer Systems, responsible for its PC-based server product line. Before that, he was a technical marketing engineer with Quickturn, which he joined in 1995. He began his career as an ASIC design engineer in the high-performance computing industry. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and a master’s degree in business administration from Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Calif.