The AXIOM board consists of seasoned entrepreneurs from the Semiconductor and EDA industry as well as technologists with a broad vision.
Avtar Saini – Chairman of the Board. A semiconductor industry veteran, Avtar is a private VC and is working with several innovative technology start-ups in India and in the USA. Avtar served in Intel till 2004, his most recent position being Intel’s Director for South Asia. He built Intel India engineering from inception to over 1500 engineers and managed the Intel business in India. Avtar also co-led the development of Pentium and Itanium chips and holds several patents in the area of microprocessor design.
S. Atiq Raza – Atiq Raza is a pre-eminent industry observer and private venture capitalist. As president and COO of AMD, he developed AMD's processor roadmap and was largely responsible for the ramp up of the new Athlon processor. Mr. Raza was most recently the President & CEO of RMI.
Raj Singh - Founder and general partner of Redwood Venture, he has extensive experience in the semiconductor and EDA industries. Mr. Singh founded interHDL, which was later acquired by Avant! Corporation and subsequently founded Cerent Systems and StratumOne Communications. He has seeded several EDA startups including, Ambit, Magma, Xpedion, Everest and Codesign Automation.
Krishna Jhaveri - A founding partner of I.A.I. LLC and an EDA industry pioneer.
