Management

Anupam Bakshi

Anupam is the Founder and CEO at Agnisys. He has more than two decades of experience implementing a wide range of products and services in the High Tech industry. Prior to forming Agnisys, he held various management and technical lead roles at companies such as Avid Technology Inc., PictureTel Corporation, Blackstone Consulting Group, Cadence Design Systems and Gateway Design Automation. Anupam has earned a HighTech MBA from Northeastern University, Massachusetts, a Masters in Computer Engineering also from Northeastern University and a Masters in Science(Electronics) from Delhi University.

Advisory Board

Don Schuler

A CAE/EDA veteran with over 30 years of experience in the development, use and support of computer tools for hardware design. Most recently he was Director of Engineering Services and Manager of Tools and Verification at Avid Technology. At Avid he led the verification and back-end work on several ASICs and FPGAs at the heart of the Avid’s Oscar winning Film Composer. Previously he led the System Design and Logic Simulation teams at CAE startup Viewlogic. Before that he was Productivity Manager at Apollo/HP where he built an extensive CAE environment using mainly commercially available tools that included tools for ASIC, PCBs and mechanical design. Initially Don spent 10 years at GTE Laboratories developing simulation, test generation and ASIC layout tools. He is co-inventor of Concurrent Fault Simulation, holds a patent on simulation techniques, and has published several papers including two Best Paper Awards on design methodologies. Another paper was selected for the Design Automation Conference 25th Anniversary Proceedings. During his time in CAE Don has evaluated dozens CAE tools and was an early adopter of several new and innovative tools.

Neeraj Rai

Neeraj has more than two decades of broad-based Hardware industry expertise. He has proven track record in ASIC design and verification, board verification, platform validation, post silicon validation, IP development specifically in the Networking domain. He has led design and verification teams in companies such as Intel Corp., Conexant Systems, Sasken Communications, TI, Avici systems, Lucent Technologies, and Nortel Networks to mention a select few. Neeraj has earned an MS in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, NY.