Management

Badru Agarwala - President

Badru Agarwala founded AXIOM in 1999. Prior to this, Badru has founded Silicon Automation Systems (currently Sasken Communication) and was founder and President of Frontline Design Automation, later acquired by Avant Corporation in 1997. Badru is a pioneer in the field of simulation and verification and has developed significant technologies over a career spanning over 25 years. His vision for designer productivity improvements stems from his extensive experience working with the design and verification community. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Iowa.

Vivek Bhat - Co-Founder & V.P Engineering

A co-founder of AXIOM, Vivek has over 20 years of experience in the EDA industry and has held management positions at Cadence Design Automation and Frontline Design Automation and served as Director of Engineering at Avant. Vivek has managed the development of several products in the area of simulation and verification, including cycle based Verilog simulator at Frontline, resulting in breakthrough productivity improvements. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Tarak Parikh - Co-Founder & V.P Products

Tarak is a co-founder of AXIOM and an EDA industry veteran with over 20 years of design and verification experience. Prior to AXIOM, Tarak was Director of Application Engineering at Frontline Design Automation and has spearheaded the deployment of cycle based simulation technology. Before this assignment, Tarak has created various CAD tools and design environments at Sierra Semiconductor (PMC Sierra). Tarak holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.