Cyrus Afghahi was a founder of Novelics in 2005 and served as their CEO until being acquired by Mentor in 2011
Prviously Afghahi was technical director for the office of the CTO at Broadcom, a Principal Engineer at Intel, the head of the R&D group at Ericsson Radio, and Manager at SAAB electronic.
Afghahi received his Ph.D. from Linkoping University in Sweden