Might have been his forty years in the US semiconductor business, could have been his ten years as a CEO of Cadence Design Systems, a company in the low (single

Might have been his forty years in the US semiconductor business, could have been his ten years as a CEO of Cadence Design Systems, a company in the low (single digit) multi billions. This may have carried weight: In 2017, the analytics firm Relationship Science named him most connected executives in the technology industry garnering a perfect "power score" of 100. ~ https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-are-the-most-well-connected-people-in-the-tech-industry-2017-06-01 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-are-the-most-well-co... Hard to say.