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Nassda Expands Executive Staff New Appointments for Major Accounts, North American and European Sales Operations SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nassda Corporation (NASDAQ:NSDA) today announced major appointments to its executive ranks to support greater product adoption and growth in its worldwide customer base. Dermott Lynch has been promoted to vice president, U.S. sales, and Susanne Hampe has been hired as the European general manager. In these new positions, both Lynch and Hampe report to Nassda CEO, Sang Wang. John Yelinek, who has been responsible for building Nassda's sales and support team since joining the company in January 2000, has been appointed to the new role of vice president of major accounts from his previous role as vice president for world-wide sales. Yelinek will continue to focus on expanding business with Nassda's largest and most important customers who require its advanced nanometer verification and analysis technology. Sang Wang, CEO, stated, "Our customers, including 25 out of the top 25 world-wide semiconductor companies, have been adopting Nassda tools and require greater support. We are dedicating executive resources to oversee each region's sales and support operations, including major accounts." Wang continued, "Dermott and Susanne are savvy veterans of the EDA industry with acute knowledge of their respective regions' sales cycles, customer expectations and sales potential. Both are highly qualified to help bring Nassda's sales to the next level while providing world-class support to large customers with international design sites. With Dermott and Susanne on board in these new positions, we are targeting to increase sales activity, user satisfaction and customer support." About Dermott Lynch Lynch was formerly the director of Northwest sales at Nassda. He is an 18 year veteran of the EDA industry, and served as vice president of business development at Sente until its merger with Sequence Design. Before Sente, he was director of technical marketing and Western region sales manager at Quad Design. Lynch has also held sales and engineering positions at Ashling Microsystems, Elcor Associates and Contec Microelectronics. Lynch will oversee domestic sales from Nassda's corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California. About Susanne Hampe Based in Munich, Germany, Susanne Hampe was formerly European sales director for Barcelona Design (Sunnyvale, California). Ms. Hampe will be responsible for Nassda's sales operations in the European market. Before joining Barcelona Design, Ms. Hampe worked for Simplex Solutions as general manager for Central Europe. After Cadence Design System's acquisition of Simplex, she became business development manager for Europe at Cadence. Daniel Borgraeve, who had been Nassda's European director of operations, has resigned to pursue other business opportunities. About Nassda Nassda Corporation is a leading provider of full-chip circuit verification software for complex nanometer semiconductors. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company develops and markets simulation and analysis solutions for advanced ICs, especially for analog, mixed signal, memory, system-on-chip and high performance digital designs. Nassda's products enable first silicon success, and improve product quality and production yield for its consumer, communication, computer and memory customers. The company has sales and distribution offices throughout the world. For more information about Nassda, please visit the company's website at http://www.nassda.com/. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding anticipated sales activity, future customer support and anticipated user satisfaction. In some cases, you will be able to identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "believe," "may," "will," "can", "expect" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements in this release involve risks and uncertainty, including without limitation the availability of customer budgets for Nassda's products, the design performance of Nassda's existing and new electronic design automation software and other tools, customers' adoption of Nassda's products and the integration of the new appointed executive staff with the company and their respective staff. In addition, continued reduced capital spending or delayed implementation of programs due to adverse general economic conditions and reduced demand for products containing complex nanometer-scale semiconductors may impact Nassda's future sales activity. These risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause Nassda's actual levels of activity or performance to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Neither Nassda nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of these forward-looking statements. Nassda disclaims any obligation to update information contained in any forward-looking statement. For additional information and considerations regarding the risks faced by Nassda, see Nassda's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2003 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2004, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. NOTE: Nassda is a registered trademarks of Nassda Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their owners. 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