Sanjay Bansal
Director & Head 3G Platforms, ST-Ericsson Bangalore
Sanjay heads the 3G Platforms Group in ST-Ericsson Bangalore. Under his leadership, merger exercise had become smooth when NXP Wireless & ST Wireless teams were to be merged in India. With Ericsson Mobile Platforms joining the joint venture in 2009, he had doubled the team in ST-Ericsson Bangalore, during very tough times for IT industry in India. Sanjay has grown his group both in numbers as well as competencies, having now firmly established itself in 3G platform business within ST-Ericsson, while Bangalore enjoys the status of a unique site in ST-Ericsson globally as it contributes to critical projects of all 3 business divisions of ST-Ericsson. Sanjay leads his team in making critical deliverables in different domains of Smart Phone platforms, e.g. Modem adaptations, BSP & Kernel development for Linux, MultiMedia, Connectivity integration, system validation and direct end-customer support. Sanjay started his career with an R & D centre in Noida in 1992, gaining knowledge in IC design and after a period of two and a half years, moved into embedded software development. In 1996, he joined Philips Semiconductors Bangalore, which later became NXP Semiconductors and finally merged its wireless business into ST-Ericsson. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics & Communication from IIT Roorkee.