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ISA's executive council formally elected
By siliconindia staff writer
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Wednesday, 08 June 2005, 19:30 IST
BANGALORE: The India Semiconductor Association today announced the election of its executive council for the year 2005-06. The members of the apex body have re-elected Rajendra Kumar Khare, Managing Director, Broadcom India as Chairman, Dr.Anand Anandkumar, Managing Director, Magma Design Automation India as Vice-chairman, Uma Mahesh, Director Silicon Engineering & Operations, Insilica India as Secretary and V Veerappan, Co Founder & Vice President ? Operations, Tessolve India as Treasurer, respectively.
The elected members of the executive council are: Dr.Bobby Mitra, Managing Director, Texas Instruments India, Vasudevan Murthy, Vice President and Head - VLSI/System Design Division Wipro Technologies, Dr. Madhusudan V Atre, Vice-president, Agere Systems India, S. Janakiraman, President & CEO (R&D Services), MindTree Consulting, and Satya Gupta, Vice President Engineering, Open Silicon India. Two other senior industry professionals - JAC Choudhary, CEO, Portal Player India and Samir Kumar, Managing Director, JumpStartUp have been co-opted as members to the board. Dr.Sridhar Mitta, Managing Director & CTO, e4e Labs India and Chief Mentor, ISA conducted the elections.
Announcing the formal election, Dr.Sridhar Mitta, said,? The founding team has done a tremendous job of generating momentum so much so that I can say with assurance that ISA in its six months of existence has traversed far more than any industry association I know of. It is heartening that such acceleration and coordinated effort is happening at a time when the industry itself is witnessing a crescendo in terms of growth and its role. I heartily wish the team all success in their endeavor to take the industry to its next level of growth.?
Added Dr. Vinod K Agarwal, Chairman & Founder, Logic Vision Inc. & Chief Advisor, ISA,? The team has a challenge ahead of not only maintaining the immense momentum but of evolving new strategies that would take the industry to heights hitherto untouched. The team is right and the time is ripe.