Joachim Kunkel

Who is Joachim Kunkel?

Joachim Kunkel joined Synopsys in 1994 and is currently vice

president and general manager of the Solutions Group. In that capacity,

he manages the business units responsible for Synopsys DesignWare®

intellectual property (IP), strategic market development and

system-level design. Before coming to Synopsys, Mr. Kunkel was

co-founder of CADIS GmbH in Aachen, Germany. There, he served as

managing director and performed myriad duties in engineering, sales and

marketing. Before co-founding CADIS, Mr. Kunkel 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. Mr. Kunkel

holds an MSEE degree, the Dipl.-Ing. der Nachrichtentechnik, from the

Aachen University of Technology.