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Cadence Design Systems

CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC

NASDAQ: CDNS. Canonical company identity and public leadership record.

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Alpha ID
alpha:company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb
SEC CIK
0000813672
Website
www.cadence.com Open
Record version
vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce, published Oct 15, 2026
Newest evidence
Mar 25, 2026
Monitoring
Not yet monitored Details
Integrity
Not yet signed Methodology
CEO
Anirudh DevganSince Feb 19, 2026
Chair
Not published
Independent
10 / 1111 directors published
Published claims
405 distinct sources
Evidence records
120 pinned
Source conflicts
0None open

Built from 5 distinct sources and 12 evidence records. Every Claim links to where it appears. Where nothing was published, the record states the coverage gap.

CorroboratedSource reportedAlpha inferenceNot disclosed

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CEO CHANGED

Anirudh Devgan executive of Cadence Design Systems, effective 2026-02-19.

EffectiveEffective Feb 19, 2026E4

Monitoring

Continuous

What the published record states about identity, evidence, evaluation, monitoring, authority, and freshness. Watched-source schedules are not published for this record.

  • Identityunclaimed
    Published
  • Evidencesource_reported
    Published
  • Evaluationnot_evaluated
    Published
  • MonitoringNot yet published for this record.
    Not published
  • AuthorityNot yet published for this record.
    Not published
  • Freshnesscurrent
    Published

Leadership

Evidence
RolePersonSinceStatusClaim
President and Chief Executive OfficerAnirudh DevganFeb 2026currentSource reportedE4
Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Digital and Signoff GroupChin-Chi TengFeb 2026currentSource reportedE5
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerJohn M. WallFeb 2026currentSource reportedE6
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate SecretaryMarc TaxayFeb 2026currentSource reportedE7
Senior Vice President and General Manager of the System Verification GroupPaul CunninghamFeb 2026currentSource reportedE8
Senior Vice President, Customer Success TeamPaul ScannellFeb 2026currentSource reportedE9

Board of directors

Evidence

11 directors published. 10 of 11 with a published determination are independent.

DirectorStatusSinceCommitteesClaim
Alberto Sangiovanni-VincentelliIndependent1992AuditSource reportedE3
Anirudh DevganNot independent2021None publishedSource reportedE3
Ita BrennanIndependent2020AuditAudit; Corporate Governance and Nominating · ChairCorporate Governance and Nominating, chairSource reportedE3
James D. PlummerIndependent2011AuditSource reportedE3
Julia LiusonIndependent2021Corporate Governance and NominatingSource reportedE3
Lewis ChewIndependent2020Audit, chairAudit · ChairSource reportedE3
Luc Van den hoveIndependent2026None publishedSource reportedE3
Mark W. AdamsIndependent2015Compensation, chairCompensation · ChairSource reportedE3
ML KrakauerIndependent2022Corporate Governance and NominatingSource reportedE3
Moshe GavrielovIndependent2025CompensationSource reportedE3
Young K. SohnIndependent2013CompensationSource reportedE3

Committees and risk ownership

Evidence
CommitteeChairMembersRisks assigned
AuditLewis ChewLewis Chew, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Ita Brennan, James D. PlummerNot described in the published record
Audit · ChairNot publishedLewis ChewNot described in the published record
Audit; Corporate Governance and Nominating · ChairNot publishedIta BrennanNot described in the published record
CompensationMark W. AdamsMark W. Adams, Moshe Gavrielov, Young K. SohnNot described in the published record
Compensation · ChairNot publishedMark W. AdamsNot described in the published record
Corporate Governance and NominatingIta BrennanIta Brennan, Julia Liuson, ML KrakauerNot described in the published record
Committee RecordAudit: Chair Lewis Chew; Members Lewis Chew (Chair); Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli; Ita Brennan; James D. Plummer
Source reportedE10
company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb:committee_record:26
Committee AppointmentLewis Chew: chair, Audit
Source reportedE10
company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb:committee_appointment:27
Committee AppointmentAlberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli: member, Audit
Source reportedE10
company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb:committee_appointment:28
Committee AppointmentIta Brennan: member, Audit
Source reportedE10
company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb:committee_appointment:29
Committee AppointmentJames D. Plummer: member, Audit
Source reportedE10
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Committee RecordCompensation: Chair Mark W. Adams; Members Mark W. Adams (Chair); Moshe Gavrielov; Young K. Sohn
Source reportedE10
company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb:committee_record:31
Committee AppointmentMark W. Adams: chair, Compensation
Source reportedE10
company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb:committee_appointment:32
Committee AppointmentMoshe Gavrielov: member, Compensation
Source reportedE10
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Committee AppointmentYoung K. Sohn: member, Compensation
Source reportedE10
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Committee RecordCorporate Governance and Nominating: Chair Ita Brennan; Members Ita Brennan (Chair); Julia Liuson; ML Krakauer
Source reportedE10
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Committee AppointmentIta Brennan: chair, Corporate Governance and Nominating
Source reportedE10
company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb:committee_appointment:36
Committee AppointmentJulia Liuson: member, Corporate Governance and Nominating
Source reportedE10
company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb:committee_appointment:37
Committee AppointmentML Krakauer: member, Corporate Governance and Nominating
Source reportedE10
company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb:committee_appointment:38

Control and voting power

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Authority to act

Evidence and agent registry

Who can act for the company, and on whose authority. This is what a counterparty's agent checks before it accepts an order, signs, or pays.

Principal executive officerAnirudh Devgan, President and Chief Executive Officer, from Feb 19, 2026
Source reportedE4
company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb:leadership_role:20
Who can authorize an agentNot assessedNo Alpha inference about signing authority or board-reserved matters is published for this record.
Not assessed
bind
AI agents registered by the companyNot registered in the public RegistryAgent Deployments, Agent Use Cases, Authority Grants, TrustChecks, Action Ledger entries and Governance Receipts live in the private enterprise overlay. They are never projected into the public Registry without explicit cross-plane authorization. Absence here is a plane boundary, not evidence that the enterprise operates no agents.
Agent registry
agents
Delegations publishedNot disclosedBoard and officer delegation resolutions are not public filings and are not published in this record.
Search scope
delegations

Financials and market context

Evidence
Index MembershipS&P 500 (SPX)
Source reportedE11
company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb:index_membership:39
Index MembershipNasdaq-100 (NDX)
Source reportedE12
company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb:index_membership:40
Security ListingCDNS (NASDAQ)
Source reportedE1
company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb:security_listing:41
Index memberships2 memberships attached to a specific security and listing.Announcements, effective dates, and removals remain distinct states; Alpha does not infer membership from company size, exchange, or reputation.
SPXNDX
Source reportedAs of Oct 15, 2026. Rights-filtered public evidence only; no redistribution or model training is granted. Only source-backed memberships with an explicit public redistribution basis are returned.
IndexSecurityStatusEffectiveVerificationSource
S&P 500 (S&P Dow Jones Indices)NASDAQ: CDNScurrentSep 18, 2017inferredSlickcharts S&P 500 constituent table (public observation, not S&P DJI license)
Nasdaq-100 (Nasdaq)NASDAQ: CDNScurrentSep 1, 2026exchange verifiedNasdaq official Nasdaq-100 list-type API

Governance and policies

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Risk, audit, and cyber

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

AI oversight and accountability

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Compensation

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Other published claims

Evidence

Published Claims that belong to no section above. Each keeps its permalink, evidence, and assertion state.

Legal NameCADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC
Source reportedE1
company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb:legal_name:1
Entity StatusPublic listing published
Source reportedE1
company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb:entity_status:3
Official Websitehttps://www.cadence.com
Source reportedE2
company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb:official_website:4
Published FactTechnology
Source reportedE1
company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb:published_fact:7
Published Facthttps://www.cadence.com
Source reportedE2
company:09f82ca9-efa9-439a-aa0d-f17b60fd77bb:published_fact:8

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Coverage

A gap is a coverage state, not a negative finding. These sections are expected for this entity class and are not yet published.

  • Corporate structureNot reviewed. Parent, subsidiary and predecessor structure explains who is governed.
  • OwnershipNot reviewed. Ownership and voting power determine who can influence the board.
  • FinancialsNot reviewed. Governance-relevant financial context frames capital and audit decisions.
  • CompensationNot reviewed. Pay design shows how incentives are governed.
  • GovernanceNot reviewed. Governing documents and provisions set the rules of the enterprise.
  • Shareholder governanceNot reviewed. Meeting and vote records show shareholder dissent and support.
  • AuditNot reviewed. Auditor, controls and restatements show assurance over reporting.
  • LegalNot reviewed. Material legal and regulatory matters show enforcement exposure.
  • RiskNot reviewed. Risk ownership links the board, committees, executives and controls.
  • CyberNot reviewed. Cyber and data governance is a disclosed oversight domain.
  • AI governanceNot reviewed. AI oversight is a differentiated Alpha governance domain.
  • Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.
  • Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.
  • Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.
  • Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.
  • This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.

Subject and corrections

Public-role doctrine

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Basis
Published company record built from public sources
Sources
12 evidence records cited. 0 with redistribution rights.
Never published
Private enterprise overlay data: deployments, authority grants, TrustChecks, receipts, telemetry
Record claimed
No
Open disputes
0
Identity ownership
unclaimed
Claiming not yet available

If the company claims the record, its statements appear as their own assertion state and never overwrite the cited evidence.

Evidence

Authority and rights
  1. E1
    Alpha canonical company public projection
    Alpha canonical company public projection. canonical identity. Retrieved Oct 15, 2026. Cited by 6 Claims.
    Open web
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  2. E2
    CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC Form 10-K (filed 2026-02-19)
    CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC Form 10-K (filed 2026-02-19). SEC filing. Retrieved Aug 29, 2026. Cited by 2 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  3. E3
    Cadence Design Systems, Inc. DEF 14A 2026-03-25
    sec proxy. Published Mar 25, 2026. Retrieved May 3, 2026. Cited by 11 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  4. E4
    CDNS 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 19, 2026. Retrieved May 14, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  5. E5
    CDNS 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 19, 2026. Retrieved May 14, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  6. E6
    CDNS 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 19, 2026. Retrieved May 14, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  7. E7
    CDNS 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 19, 2026. Retrieved May 14, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  8. E8
    CDNS 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 19, 2026. Retrieved May 14, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  9. E9
    CDNS 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 19, 2026. Retrieved May 14, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  10. E10
    Audit
    board_seats. sp500-board-director-completeness-remediation-2026-05-15. Cited by 13 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  11. E11
    S&P 500
    Slickcharts S&P 500 constituent table (public observation, not S&P DJI license). index provider. Retrieved Sep 2, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Open web
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  12. E12
    Nasdaq-100
    Nasdaq official Nasdaq-100 list-type API. index provider. Retrieved Sep 2, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Open web
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned

What changed in version public-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce

vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce published Oct 15, 2026
  • Anirudh Devgan executive of Cadence Design Systems, effective 2026-02-19.
  • Chin-Chi Teng executive of Cadence Design Systems, effective 2026-02-19.
  • John M. Wall executive of Cadence Design Systems, effective 2026-02-19.
  • Marc Taxay executive of Cadence Design Systems, effective 2026-02-19.
  • Paul Cunningham executive of Cadence Design Systems, effective 2026-02-19.
  • Paul Scannell executive of Cadence Design Systems, effective 2026-02-19.
  • Luc Van den hove seat on Cadence Design Systems, effective 2026-01-01.
  • Moshe Gavrielov seat on Cadence Design Systems, effective 2025-01-01.
  • Moshe Gavrielov member of Compensation, effective 2025-01-01.
  • ML Krakauer seat on Cadence Design Systems, effective 2022-01-01.
  • Anirudh Devgan seat on Cadence Design Systems, effective 2021-01-01.
  • Julia Liuson seat on Cadence Design Systems, effective 2021-01-01.
  • Julia Liuson member of Corporate Governance and Nominating, effective 2021-01-01.
  • Ita Brennan seat on Cadence Design Systems, effective 2020-01-01.
  • Lewis Chew seat on Cadence Design Systems, effective 2020-01-01.
  • Audit · Chair committee of Cadence Design Systems, effective 2020-01-01.
  • Lewis Chew member of Audit · Chair, effective 2020-01-01.
  • Audit; Corporate Governance and Nominating · Chair committee of Cadence Design Systems, effective 2020-01-01.
  • Ita Brennan member of Audit; Corporate Governance and Nominating · Chair, effective 2020-01-01.
  • Mark W. Adams seat on Cadence Design Systems, effective 2015-01-01.
  • Compensation · Chair committee of Cadence Design Systems, effective 2015-01-01.
  • Mark W. Adams member of Compensation · Chair, effective 2015-01-01.
  • Young K. Sohn seat on Cadence Design Systems, effective 2013-01-01.
  • James D. Plummer seat on Cadence Design Systems, effective 2011-01-01.
  • Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli seat on Cadence Design Systems, effective 1992-01-01.
  • Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli member of Audit, effective 1992-01-01.
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  11. AI oversight0
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