Evatronix hires Carsten Elgert as VP of Marketing and Sales

Update: Cadence Completes Acquisition of Evatronix IP Business (Jun 13, 2013)

Bielsko-Biala/Poland -- September 17th, 2009 - The silicon Intellectual Property (IP) provider, Evatronix SA, today announced Carsten Elgert accepted the position as the Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Evatronix. Elgert comes from Mentor Graphics, where he served as European Marketing Director over the last 6 years.

“In order to maintain the momentum of Evatronix in the market and further grow the company, we need to focus on a strategic marketing and sales approach,” said Wojciech Sakowski, Evatronix President and CEO. “I am very glad that we could get Carsten to finally join our company. His broad experience and proven success in technical, sales and marketing management positions within global enterprises will undoubtedly be a huge asset for us. I am sure that Carsten will leverage on his experience and introduce new standards and practices into our company, and these will turn into tangible profits for Evatronix.”

Before becoming European Marketing Director he served at Mentor as the European systems solutions manager. Since the spin-off from Intergraph Carsten was the managing director of VeriBest in Central Europe, until its acquisition by Mentor. Before that he gathered his sales and marketing experience in sales and management positions at Intergraph electronics, Cadence, SES and Caeco. After obtaining his EE degree from the University of Karlsruhe in 1983 he honed his technical skills as an application engineer and AE manager at EDA pioneer Daisy Systems.

“Since I met Wojciech more than 10 years ago I am monitoring this company. We have all chances in our hand to significantly grow our position in the IP market over the upcoming years,” said Carsten Elgert. “Evatronix has a very strong technical offering. The highly skilled engineers and the ambitious sales and marketing team that I have the honor to lead now make me very excited of my new role. We take advantage of the current economic climate to update our sales and marketing processes which will bring us into the pole position when the race starts off again.”

About Evatronix

Evatronix SA, founded in 1991 in Poland, develops electronic virtual components (IP cores) along with complementary software and supporting development environments. The company also provides electronic design services. Product lines cover a multitude of solutions from interface controllers and microprocessors to integrated System-on-Chip development platforms.

Evatronix IP cores are available directly or through the sales network of its strategic distribution partner, CAST, Inc.

Evatronix is headquartered in Bielsko-Biala, Poland, and employs over 75 engineers.

For more information about the company please visit the company’s web site at www.evatronix.pl or contact Jacek Duda at Tel: +48322311171 ext. 22 or jacek.duda(at)evatronix.pl.