With more than 35 years of experience, Ms. Adan is adept at leveraging change management skills to mobilize organizations behind strategic business, operational and technical initiatives. She also brings extensive enterprise software product management experience and a deep understanding of both the semiconductor and integrated circuit markets.

Most recently, Ms. Adan has driven the creation of Transaction Service Agreements for a carve-out of two brands for a global $6.75 billion B2C; established the integration management office and Day 1 readiness plan for a $5.4 billion global pharmaceutical company’s $576 million cross-border acquisition; and conducted operational diligence on a SaaS clean energy company’s manufacturing site for a $576 billion international pension fund investment.

Prior to joining A&M, Ms. Adan served as Head of M&A Integration with Citrix Systems, where she was responsible for integrating a $2 billion acquisition while maintaining the company’s pre-acquisition revenue growth. She created a global IMO to provide transparency, oversight, and governance, and to communicate potential risks to the executive leadership team. 

Previously, Ms. Adan spent 19 years with Synopsys in Mountain View, California, where she led the transformation of Software Integrity Group’s lead-to-cash operations to double revenue scalability; established Synopsys’ corporate IMO, supporting four business groups and integrating 35 acquisitions over 11 years; and contributed to the operational and technical due diligence of the acquired companies which comprised the Synopsys’ Software Integrity Group, notably Coverity, Cigital, Codenomicon and Black Duck. She also spent several years at Hewlett-Packard’s Optoelectronics Division as a manufacturing development engineer.

Ms. Adan earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State University. She is a leader in A&Ms Asian American Pacific Islander diversity and inclusion group, boasting over 300 members nationwide, and was recently accepted to be part of Cohort 2024 in the Women of Ascend Learning and Development Series.