Author: Aveek Sarkar
About the Author: Aveek Sarkar is VP, Sales and Support, for the Semiconductor BU at ANSYS. He joined ANSYS through its acquisition of Apache Design Solutions where he was one of its earliest employees. He is responsible for all customer engagements for the Semiconductor Business Unit of ANSYS.  While at Apache he had taken on different roles and responsibilities including his last role as Vice President of WW Customer Support and Product Engineering. He previously worked at Sun Microsystems on circuit design, power delivery and chip-package co-design for several generations of UltraSparc processors. Mr. Sarkar holds a B. Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, a MSEE from Oregon State University, and MBA from Santa Clara University.