Arteris, Inc. (AIP)

K. Charles Janac has been president and chief executive of Arteris since May 2005, a director since July 2005 and chairman since August 2007. He came from chip design software and chip equipment: marketing and sales at Cadence Design Systems from 1983 to 1992, then Smart Machines, a maker of semiconductor automation equipment that he founded and sold to Brooks Automation in 1999, then Nanomix, a nanotechnology start-up he ran from 2001 to 2003. Through Bayview Legacy, a company he manages, he beneficially owned 20.0% of the shares in April 2026. 12345

Laurent Moll has run engineering as chief operating officer since March 2021. He was Arteris's own chief technical officer from July 2011 to October 2013, then worked at Qualcomm until 2021, latterly as vice president of engineering, and before all that at NVIDIA from 2008 to 2011; he is a named inventor on more than 60 US patents. Paul Alpern has been chief legal officer since August 2019, after serving as general counsel of Wave Computing, an AI processor company. Nicholas Hawkins has been chief financial officer since November 2019, after serving as finance chief of Corsair Gaming, a maker of gaming hardware, from 2008 to 2019. The company announced in May 2026 that he would retire on September 7, 2026, staying on as a transitional advisor until August 31, 2027; on the record this site holds, Saurabh Sinha first filed as chief financial officer in September 2026. 678910111213

The board leans on the chip licensing trade. Joachim Kunkel, a director since September 2024, spent three decades at Synopsys, where he ran its intellectual property business. Antonio Viana, since October 2016, held senior posts at ARM Holdings from 1998 to 2005 and 2008 to 2015, among them president. S. Atiq Raza, since January 2014, was president and chief operating officer of AMD from 1996 to 1999. Wayne Cantwell, the lead independent director and on the board since January 2014, once ran two semiconductor licensing companies, inSilicon from 1999 to 2001 and SOISIC from 2003 to 2004. 14151617181920

At the end of 2025 Arteris counted 299 employees: 170 in research and development, 81 in sales and marketing and 48 in administration. Half of them, 150 people, worked in France, against 96 in the United States, 21 in China, 12 in Poland, eight in South Korea, six in Japan and six elsewhere. The engineers split 112 on interconnect IP and 58 on the integration software, and 55 corporate and field application engineers help customers put the designs into their chips. None belongs to a union, though the staff in France work under a collective bargaining agreement. By June 30, 2026, after the Cycuity purchase, the count was 364. 212223242526