Jury Members:

Dr. M.J. Zarabi Co-founder - Masamb Electronics Systems Dr. Zarabi pioneered VLSI design and fabrication effort in India. He has, in fact, been synonymous with the microelectronics activity in India for more than three decades. He launched and successfully led a number of technologies and product development projects which has led to the development of an indigenous capability to meet India's strategic requirements in the vital area of microelectronics. He is also Honorary Advisor to India Semiconductor Association.

Dr. Madhusudan Atre, Country Head , AMD India Dr. Atre has more than two decades of leadership and management experience in semiconductor and solar industries. He is also leading the engineering operations in the areas of Renewable Energy (Solar), Semiconductor, Glass Coating, Packaging; equipments engineering and software, etc. He is an Executive/Management Consultant to the Industries, Universities (Advisory Board, Governing Council, Strategic Guidance, and Faculty), Venture Capital and Private Equity firms, Entrepreneurs and Start-Ups, Government, Industry Associations & Bodies.

Vinay Shenoy, Managing Director, Infineon Technologies India Vinay has over twenty years experience in driving business growth and innovation within the semiconductors, consumer electronics and telecommunications industries. He has worked in various roles at Texas Instruments, Philips Electronics and SemIndia. He has a proven track record in establishing business & Innovation in large multinationals as well as startups with wide ranging experience in marketing & sales, product strategy & development, business development and partnerships.

Sankara Narayan, VP & Country Manager, NXP India

Sankara Narayan is currently the Vice President and Country Manager for NXP India responsible for maintaining and continuously improving NXP brand image through business professionalism and integrity on all our operations in India. He and his team of R&D professionals will bring the high performance mixed signal (HPMS)technology products to the benefit of emerging India markets and engage with a few technical universities to understand and stimulate development of applications for local needs.

He started his career with Philips research in the Netherlands, 26 years ago, responsible for the development of high speed CCDs( Charge Coupled devices) for signal processing and Image processing applications. He then moved to Philips semiconductors in 1993 responsible for global technology development and coordination . In this role he was also responsible for establishing European governmental and university relations for joint technology development of CMOS/Bi CMOS processes. In the last ten years he was responsible for global quality and sustainability management for NXP.

Sunil Thamaran, Managing Director, Cypress Semiconductor India

Sunil has 22 years of experience in semiconductor industry, of which the last 16 years have been with Cypress Semiconductor. Sunil is the director of asynchronous SRAM business unit at Cypress Semiconductor. Located out of Cypress’s Bangalore office, Sunil manages the entire business operations (product definition, development, product/test engineering, marketing and customer support). Prior to this, Sunil was the director of design engineering group in Bangalore office, that developed a number of memory, clocks, USB and PSoC products.

Nambi Ganesh. G, Director, Delphi

Nambi has more than fourteen years of experience in the hardware design and software development industries in India. Nambi Ganesh is currently the Global Services Director of Technical Center India (TCI) for Delphi India. He is responsible for leading TCI’s efforts to meet worldwide customer demand for products that will increase the convenience, comfort and connectivity of the vehicles they drive.

Krishna Moorthy. K, Managing Director - India Design Center, Rambus Chip Technologies India Krishna Moorthy a well-known industry veteran who brings in more than 3 decades of industry experience and currently heads India design center for Rambus Chip Technologies. Prior to Rambus, he was associated with National Semiconductor as its Managing Director for more than a decade.

Srinivas Gande, Senior Director - Engineering, Marvell Semiconductor

Srinivas has over 18 years experience in design and manage engineering teams in complex multi-processor SOC, system and embedded S/W development. Currently working as senior director, digital entertainment business unit of Marvell India design center responsible for media processor SOC design and S/W development for smart TV / set-top box products. Prior to relocation to India, worked for Marvell semiconductor USA 12 years responsible for architecutre, design and development for application and baseband processor SOC's for mobile products.