Previously, Aki served as CTO at Cadence Design Systems. Aki returned to Cadence for the second time through the acquisition of Simplex Solutions where he was President/COO and an inside board member. He was also a board member and VP at Pure Software. Simplex and Pure both IPO’d during his tenure. He was a founding member of Tangent Systems in 1984, which was subsequently acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 1989.
Aki was on the boards of HLDS, RTime, Bristol, S7, and Coverity, Inc., all of which were successfully acquired.
Aki received his BS/MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT.