Arteris, Inc. announced that Christel Mauffet-Smith has joined the company as its Executive Vice President of Global Sales. She will have worldwide responsibility for sales, field engineering and customer support and will serve as a vital part of the executive team. Ms. Mauffet-Smith brings more than two decades of successfully leading and building winning teams to deliver growth and customer success in market-leading system IP and semiconductor companies.

Most recently, she served as a Sales Group Leader at Cadence with global responsibility for sales, customer success and growth of all technologies across key strategic accounts. Previously, she held various sales leadership positions at Ansys and Synopsys where she built and managed large, high-performing, cross-functional and multidisciplinary global engineering, sales and field applications teams. Ms. Mauffet-Smith holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from École Polytechnique de Nantes.