Madhusudan V. Atre is the choice for VP, Agere’s India Development Center
Semiconductor firm for storage, wireless data, public and enterprise networks Agere Systems has gained an academic heavyweight Madhusudan.V.Atre as Vice President, Agere India Development Center (IDC) at Bangalore.

Atre will head the IDC’s research and development efforts and is responsible for identifying new business opportunities for Agere. He leads a 250-strong team. He graduated from IIT, Bombay in Physics and earned a Ph.D in Theoretical Physics from IISc, Bangalore.

Atre began his career with Agere in 1998 and focused on digital signal processor tools and applications, as well as applications specific integrated circuit tools and methodologies. Atre has authored more than 20 papers. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics & Telecommunications Engineers in India, and has been elected to the founding Executive Council of the recently formed India Semiconductor Association.

V.V.Sundaram joins Airbee Wireless (India) as MD & CEO.
He is a bicycling enthusiast, who at present is relishing the challenge of the 650 km. ‘Ride the Rockies’ bicycling event in far away Colarado.

He is Veeravanallur V. Sundaram, who has joined as Managing Director and CEO of Airbee Wireless (India), provider of connectivity software for wireless voice, data and video communications. In the last 10 years with Covansys Corp., he was the Managing Director and CEO of Offshore Operations, where he took the responsibility for an offshore operation that began with approximately 50 people and grew under Sundaram’s leadership to 2,000.

Prior to Covansys, Sundaram worked for British Petroleum in Cleveland, Ohio for 20 years where a challenging moment was the involvement with the building of the Trans Alaska Pipeline in the 1980s under hostile weather conditions.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics, a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA in Finance and Operations Research from Case Western University.

Tejas Networks appoints Dr. Kanwar Jit Singh as Principal Architect
1986 Ratan Swarup Gold Medal for the best all rounder at IIT, Kanpur set the ball rolling for Dr.Kanwar Jit Singh’s illustrious career.

Now, Tejas Networks, a telecom product company
has announced the appointment of Singh as its Principal Architect. Prior to Tejas, he was heading a Broadband Switch Group at UTStarcom, New Jersey. Prior to UTStarcom, he was the co-founder and VLSI Lead of Xebeo Communications.

He has a rich experience in
telecommunications, networking, packet switching, VLSI and ASIC design. He is a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur. Singh has four patents in his name and several more pending. He has also won several accolades for technological innovations and has a slew of publications to his credit.

Syntel Inc has deputed Revathy Ashok as its Chief Financial Officer
“IIM, Bangalore happened by chance,” says Revathy Ashok the newly appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Michigan-based global information technology services company, Syntel Inc. “I was more interested in specializing in Operations Research.”

Ashok is moving from a privately held IT infrastructure management company, Microland Group, where she served as Executive Vice-President and Group CFO. As CFO of Syntel, Ashok will oversee all global finance functions and have direct responsibility for leading all corporate accounting, tax, and treasury activities.

At Microland, she steered both organic and strategic alliances, partnerships, synergistic acquisitions and other investment opportunities plus she also negotiated a successful funding round of $7.3 million. In her 25 year career she finds it still challenging to balance career and family.

A 1980 Gold Medallist in the Finance stream from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, she also holds a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics) degree from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore.

Vyomesh Joshi resumes as Head, Hewlett-Packard’s Imaging and Printing Group
Hewlett-Packard has separated its personal computer and printing units five months after combining the businesses.

Vyomesh Joshi, who ran the combined Personal Systems Group and Imaging and Printing Group group, will resume his former role of overseeing the IPG. The IPG group encompasses everything from printers, supplies and digital cameras to desktop and notebook PCs, handheld products and workstations. Joshi was most recently the Executive Vice President of the former Imaging and Printing Group, with worldwide responsibility for all printing, scanning and digital camera platforms, for ensuring the greatest leverage from the company’s investments in inkjet, laser and LEP printing technologies, and for key initiatives to transform the commercial printing market through digital publishing. Joshi joined HP in 1980 as a research and development engineer for pen plotters.

Joshi holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Ohio State University.

Cignex names Navin Nagiah CEO
Cignex Technologies, Inc., developer of enterprise-class, open-source business solutions for multiple industries, has named international business manager and strategist Navin V. Nagiah as Chief Executive Officer.

With an extensive record of business and operational experience, and success in the U.S., U.K., Hong Kong, China, India and Singapore, Nagiah will guide CIGNEX’s growth strategy and position the company, to leverage the opportunities presented by the rapidly expanding open source market. He has previously served as President and CEO of Xisource, an enterprise software solution provider based in San Francisco and Managing Director, Asia for Internet Securities Inc., a Euromoney institutional investor company.