Joseph Ball Costello (born December 6, 1953) is an American executive in the

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(EDA) industry. He was president and COO of SDA Systems from 1987–1988 and CEO of

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, which became the largest EDA company under his tenure, from 1988–1997.

Education

Joseph received his B.S. in Physics in 1974 from

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. He also has a master's degree in Physics from both

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and

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. He started his career at

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, which he soon left to found "Electronic Speech Systems".

Career

He entered the EDA industry when James Solomon invited him to SDA Systems, where he rapidly rose to senior management. While Joseph was President of SDA, it merged with

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to become Cadence Design Systems. In 2001, Joseph gave the

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at Harvey Mudd, two days after the sudden death of

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, who had been scheduled to speak. He was formerly the

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of think3, a

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software and consulting company, and of Orb Networks. He is currently the CEO of Enlighted. He also served as chairman of Barcelona Design, BravoBrava!, Soliloquy Learning, Zamba and on the board of directors of Santa Cruz Networks and Oasys Design Systems.

Awards

In 2004, he was awarded the Phil Kaufman Award in recognition of his business contributions that helped grow the EDA industry.

References

External links

Article on Joe Costello
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