Paul van Besouw is founder and CTO of Oasys, which was acquired by Mentor in 2013.
Prior to Oasys, he was responsible for managing the synthesis and physical synthesis teams at Cadence.
Prior to Cadence, van Besouw was one of the first members of the Ambit Design Systems engineering team, where he led the development of the RTL and datapath synthesis technology which he developed from its inception.
van Besouw holds a MS Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.