Jury Members:
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 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 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.
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.