Joachim Kunkel

Joachim Kunkel has served as a member of the board since September 2024. Mr. Kunkel is an industry leader with three decades of experience at Synopsys where he most recently served as the General Manager of Synopsys’ Intellectual Property (IP) business unit. In this role, he built the Synopsys IP business and grew Synopsys’ IP revenue to over $1.5B, making Synopsys the industry’s second-largest IP provider and the largest provider of Foundation IP and Interface IP.  While at Synopsys Joachim also laid the foundation for Synopsys’ virtual prototyping and FPGA-based prototyping business.  Before joining Synopsys in 1994, Joachim was a co-founder of CADIS GmbH in Aachen, Germany. There, he served as Managing Director and performed various duties in engineering, sales, and marketing. Before co-founding CADIS he was a research assistant at the Aachen University of Technology, where he conducted research in system-level simulation techniques for digital signal processing, with special emphasis on parallel computing. Joachim holds an M.S.E.E. degree, the Dipl.-Ing. der Nachrichtentechnik, from the Aachen University of Technology. Mr. Kunkel brings a wealth of IP expertise and leadership experience to Arteris.