Prior to joining Sequence, she served as senior controller for Acirro Inc. in San Jose, Calif., a storage management software firm. A 1988 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Aguiar began her career with six years at Coopers and Lybrand in San Francisco. She then went on to a series of executive positions in and out of high-tech, including a stint as CFO for a Silicon Valley publicly traded real estate company, Mission West Properties. Magma Design Automation Inc. announced that HCL Technologies (HCLT), India's leading technology services provider, has licensed Magma's Blast Fusion physical design system. By adopting Magma's integrated solution, HCLT said it would be able to extend its physical design capabilities to provide its design services customers with time-to-market, cost and productivity advantages for deep-submicron SoCs.