Walden “Wally” C. Rhines is currently president and CEO of Cornami, Inc. as well as Chairman of Caspia Technologies.  Previously, he was CEO of Mentor Graphics for 25 years and Chairman of the Board for 17 years. During his tenure at Mentor, revenue nearly quadrupled and market value of the company increased 10X.

Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, Dr. Rhines spent 21 years at TI in various executive management roles. He has served on the board of directors for Cirrus Logic, QORVO, TriQuint Semiconductor, Global Logic, PTK Corp., SRC and as Chairman of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (five two-year terms). He is a Lifetime Fellow of the IEEE and has served on the Board of Trustees of Lewis and Clark College, the National Advisory Board of the University of Michigan and Industrial Committees advising Stanford University and the University of Florida.

He holds a BS degree in engineering from the University of Michigan, and an MS and PhD in materials science and engineering from Stanford University, a Master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University and an Honorary Doctor of Technology degrees from the University of Florida and Nottingham Trent University.