Jack Harding

Jack Harding is currently the managing partner at Harding Partners LP, an investment and business consultancy for public and private companies. He is a frequent international speaker on the topics of innovation, entrepreneurship and semiconductor trends and policies. Previously, Mr. Harding was the founding CEO of eSilicon Corporation, an ASIC (custom chip) and IP supplier that Inphi acquired with certain assets sold simultaneously to Synopsys. Prior to co-founding eSilicon, he was the president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems. He entered Cadence upon the acquisition of Cooper & Chyan Technology (CCT), where he served as the president and CEO, and was responsible for leading the company to an IPO. Prior to CCT, Mr. Harding served as the executive vice president of Zycad Corporation, and began his career with distinction at IBM. Mr. Harding maintains a balanced career, providing his services to industry, academia, and government. He has held eight directorships in public corporations and currently serves on the board of directors of Qorvo. He has also served as a director and advisor to multiple private organizations. He is currently on the Board of Advisors of Alpha Design AI. Mr. Harding has also held leadership roles at Drew University and Indiana University (IU), where he was vice chairman of the board of trustees and a member of IU's premier O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) advisory board, respectively. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Indiana University Institute for Development Strategies. Mr. Harding has also been a distinguished lecturer at the Edinburgh University Lothian Lecture Series and a Bonser Distinguished Lecturer at IU's Institute of Development Strategies, among others, including Stanford University, Max Planck Institute, and IE Business School (formerly Instituto de Empresa). In the public policy arena, Mr. Harding has served as a member of the prestigious Steering Committee in the U.S. Council on Competitiveness and was a former National Academies' Committee member for Software, Growth and the Future of the U.S. Economy. He also served 16 years as a director for the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), a semiconductor industry consortium. Harding is a co-inventor on U.S. Patent 7089449881; Method for Preparing and Using Personal and Genetic Profiles. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Chemistry and Economics from Drew University and attended the Stern School of Business at New York University.