Wally Rhines — HoF: Wally is an industry legend, having climbed the ladder to run TI's semiconductor and data systems groups and then left to run Mentor
- At TI he successfully laid the groundwork for exiting memory, while taking a majority share of the DSP market
- At Mentor Wally took over as CEO and built revenues from a third to over a billion dollars; in an era of major M&A in the EDA industry, the growth he enabled kept Mentor among the top three EDA companies in the world throughout his tenure