Alphawave IP Group announce four appointments to its executive team:
- Mohit Gupta, Senior Vice President & General Manager, leads Alphawave's IP and custom silicon business. Mohit joined Alphawave in September 2022 as part of the OpenFive acquisition, where he was Senior Vice President and General Manager for the IP and custom SoC business units. Mohit brings more than two decades of business and engineering management experience in semiconductor IP and custom silicon.
- Babak Samimi, Senior Vice President & General Manager, leads the new connectivity products business. Babak joined Alphawave in November 2022 and has over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Babak was most recently Corporate VP for Microchip Technology, Communications Networking Business, focused on enterprise, telecom, and cloud service providers.
- Saeid Ghafouri, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales, leads the global sales organization, driving design wins across the Alphawave product portfolio. Saeid joined Alphawave in February 2021 and is an experienced sales executive with a track record of accelerating revenue growth at early-stage and established semiconductor EDA and IP companies.
- Sudhir Mallya, Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing, leads our newly formed Corporate Marketing Group. Sudhir joined Alphawave in September 2022 as part of the OpenFive acquisition, where he was Vice President for corporate and custom silicon product marketing. Sudhir brings a breadth of semiconductor industry experience spanning custom silicon and application-specific products across multiple application domains.
