Dr. Russell F. Henke
Corporate Background & Education
Mentor Graphics, providing value-added services strategic to the success of MGC customers worldwide, 
specializing in electronics engineering design implementation, process renewal and productivity enhancement. Under Henke’s leadership, PSD developed lines-of-business that included all professional design-to-manufacturing process consulting practices, education & training, client-server network design services, the MGC Open Door strategic software partners program, EDA product data management & parts creation (EDA-PDM), advanced contract design of ASICs, DSPs, boards & MCMs critical to customer production products, Intellectual Property (IP) partnerships, and EDA In/OutSourcing Services. 
Year-over-year worldwide professional services revenues for PSD alone grew 25% to $40 million in 1995 and bottom line operating profit increased over $4 million. Further, satisfied PSD clients purchased more than $100 million in software products from sister MGC divisions in 1995. Henke became the Company's primary spokesman for MGC’s services-centered vision.
Prior to PSD, Dr. Henke was Vice President & General Manager of the Printed Circuit Board Division of Mentor Graphics Corporation in San Jose, CA, having joined MGC in that role in January 1990. During his tenure, the PCB Division grew rapidly and profitably to about 25% of Mentor Graphics’ overall business. By introducing and leveraging several innovative award winning software products and strategic partnerships, the PCB Division became the #1 market share leader in the world in its Board/hybrid/MultiChipModule niche. Since then, this Division's products have created over $1650 million in software product & support revenue for MGC. One of the PCB Division's well-regarded customer programs, was/is the annual best board design awards. The top left & top right images are from an award ceremony at Hewlett Packard, Sunnyvale, CA.
The PCB Division provided a global reach. On the immediate left is an award presentation to Siemens Plessey Radar on the Isle of Wight, UK. The Division also established and grew key partnerships with OEM suppliers to enhance the total solutions available to MGC customers, integrating elements of MCAE and MCAD software with MGC products for the first time. One such vendor (International TechneGroup Incorporated) is shown in the captioned photo to the far right, receiving a Vendor Excellence Award from Dr. Henke. 
Dr. Henke and Ms. Wendy Reeves Dunn worked together over several years in driving revenues for the PCB Division (photo left). Ms. Reeves later became an Executive Sales Manager at Cadence Design Systems.
In the uncaptioned snapshot to the immediate right, MGC CEO Dr. Wally Rhines (left) toasts Dr. Henke and the entire PCB Division in 1993 on having achieved the #1 worldwide market share position for the second year in a row. Dr. Henke was simultaneously in charge of the overall multi-divisional Board/MCM Process at Mentor Graphics Corporation. During this period, the seeds were sown for MGC's entry into the systems-on-a-board and later systems-on-a-chip EDA software suites.
Further, Dr. Henke was the prime mover in establishing the new MGC Silicon Valley Headquarters on Ridder Park Drive in San Jose.
This facility united multiple MGC divisions and groups previously spread out around Silicon Valley. In addition to his other duties, Dr. Henke became the Site Manager of the facility after its opening in May 1992.
The snapshot to the right was taken at the new headquarters dedication ceremony. From left to right are Dr. Henke, then San Jose Mayor Susan Hammer, and 1992 U.S. Senate Candidate Tom Bruggere. This building continues as the hub of Mentor Graphics' Silicon Valley activities to this day.
For four years just prior to joining Mentor Graphics, Henke was President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Automation Technology Products (ATP), a venture-backed mechanical design automation software company headquartered in Campbell, CA. ATP offered a complete suite of exact Solids Modeling, Finite Element Mesh Generation & Analysis, Numerical Control Machining & NC Graphical Verification, and Generative NC software tools.
Of course, all companies are team efforts. To the right is the entire cast of folks associated with the closing of the Chrysler investment, including officers of ATP and Chrysler, attorneys for both companies, and associated venture capital partners and ATP board members, September 28, 1987, Chrysler Corporate Board Room, Highland Avenue, Detroit, MI.
ATP's solid modeler created an accurate, unambiguous 3D representation in a product definition database, such as the V8 engine block shown at the upper right. Mesh generation was fully automatic, and mechanical and/or thermal analysis stress results were displayed graphically in full color (see connecting rod image here). 
CIMPLEX ran on IBM mainframes and Silicon Graphics workstations.
Prior to ATP, Dr. Henke was President and General Manager of Gould Electronics Imaging & Graphics (IGD), Fremont, CA, a leading manufacturer of high-end image processing hardware & software, for worldwide commercial & military/government markets in satellite imaging, medical CAT & MRI imaging, pre-press color lithography, and other sophisticated graphics and imaging applications. 
During Dr. Henke's tenure, Gould IGD introduced the Gould IP9000 Series Image Processor, the most powerful digital image processor of its day (see the photo shown here on the right). Included in the IP 9000 were sixteen 2048 x 2048 x 8-bit memory boards, the world's first real time moving image high speed disk drive (28 MB per second continuous data transfer), a hardware geometric transformation unit, and a comprehensive suite of installed Library of Image Processing Software (LIPS). Design and prototype construction of the Gould NPX image processing system was also completed, using unique and successful-the-first-time custom ASIC designs in four separate areas of the unit's key integrated processing components.
brought to market Applicon's first 32 bit Mechanical/Manufacturing CAD/CAM solution called BRAVO!, a software suite still in active industrial use in 2009.
During more than two years at Applicon, Henke was headquartered in Burlington, MA.
Prior to Applicon, Dr. Henke was President & COO and board member of Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC), Milford, OH. 
Joining a then-tiny enterprise of 20 souls in 1969, Henke founded both the Company’s mechanical design automation CAE software business and its Educational Seminar Activity (ESA). Here, Henke addresses one of the first ESA Executive Seminars held in the new SDRC headquarters located in the Park 50 TechneCenter just off Interstate 275, east of Cincinnati.
Partnering with then-just-emerging worldwide commercial computer networks and complementary analysis software authors, Henke leveraged to worldwide users, time-shared and remote interactive and batch access to the rapidly growing repertoire of SDRC software, long before the rise of today's Internet. Accessed via TTY's, Tek 4011, 4014 and 4081's, CDC200's, etc., SDRC software was implemented on GE420 & GE635 computers, as well as on XDS940's, CDC 6600 & 7600, Univac 1108, IBM 370's, and many others. 
From SDRC Cincinnati headquarters, Henke subsequently initiated SDRC’s geographic expansion of full service offices to Detroit, San Diego, London, Paris, Wiesbaden, etc. Here on the left, the opening of the first California office is announced at the San Diego Vacation Village Resort in the mid-70's. 
SDRC was a heavy participant in co-op work/education and was also among the pioneers in establishing strong industry-faculty relationships with multiple universities. Here Dr. Henke provides a financial contribution on behalf of SDRC, to the President of The Ohio State University (standing on left) and to the Dean Of Engineering (seated)
Dr. Henke holds a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Cincinnati. The October 1989 presentation is shown here in the photo on the left. Dean Constantine Papadakis is in the foreground and Dr. Henke is on the far right in this photo. Papadakis later became president of Drexel University in Philadelphia. A later Award reception caught Dr. Henke in the photo on the right here.
As an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Cincinnati, Henke earned degrees of Mechanical Engineering with High Honors (ME), Master of Science (MS), and the Ph.D. (major professor for the Ph.D. was R. Sridhar of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA, where Henke did some of his Ph.D. research). Primarily funded via cooperative work assignments throughout his undergraduate and graduate years, Henke also received competitive academic scholarships and fellowships, the largest of which was provided by Cincinnati Milacron.
In his senior year at the UC College of Engineering, Henke was elected president of Tau Beta Pi. The honor society was founded in 1885 to mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred honor upon their
alma mater by distinguished scholarship and exemplary character as undergraduates in engineering, or by their engineering attainments as alumni, and to foster a spirit of liberal culture in engineering colleges. Part of Henke's presidential duties involved representing the College at the Tau Beta Pi National Convention held that year in Long Beach and Pasadena, California.
Henke also won the Herman Schneider Memorial Award in recognition of having maintained the highest 5-year accumulative academic grade point average in his ME Class. Shown here on the right, Herman Schneider founded the first engineering college co-op system in 1906 at UC. 
As mentioned above, during his undergraduate and graduate days, Henke was employed by Cincinnati Milacron. After first completing Cincinnati Milacron's Machine Tool Training Program, Henke became a Research Supervisor in the Company's
Product Research & Development Group. 
(Bill Lower later became President of Rotex, Inc., Cincinnati, OH). Subsequently, Henke did his Ph.D. research in modern control theory and estimation of states & parameters, as part his work on Milacron's entry into adaptive controls, hydraulic and electric industrial robots, and automatic plastic injection molding machines
Dr. Henke served on the Board of Directors of the MacNeal Schwendler Corporation (NYSE) in 1995 & 1996. With headquarters in Los Angeles, MSC was then the leading supplier of mechanical CAE software in the world (annual revenue ~$130 million in 1996). Here on the right, Dr. Henke pitches one of the corporate acquisition candidates then under consideration by the MSC Board.
Henke actively supported the San Jose Symphony Orchestra from 1990-1996, initiating the annual Silicon Valley CEO NIGHT at the Symphony on behalf of Mentor Graphics.
Early 1990's guest conductors for CEO Night at the Symphony included, among others, composers and artists Bert Bacharach (left), Peter Nero, and Henri Mancini (right). 
With his move to MGC PSD, Henke relocated from San Jose, CA to the Portland, OR area in 1994. A member of the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of Santa Clara for four years, Henke was elected in '94 to the Board of Junior Achievement Columbia Empire. An Annual Golf Tournament serves as an excellent fund raiser for the JA cause, such as a recent round at the Silver Creek Valley Country Club.
