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California, United States

San Jose, Ca, Us

Beaverton, Oregon, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Led team to drive strategic supplier and startup engagements to support Technical Infrastructure (TI) roadmap. • Drive technology/solutions for critical programs including ARM, ML Si/systems, CXL memory tiering, advanced 3D/3.5D packaging, emerging memory & optical connectivity, RISC-V ecosystem development.• Lead strategic investments in startups for TI.• Broad startup coverage/engagement spanning the infra stack and GenAI landscape (75+ companies).

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led business development and strategic partnerships for Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure. Engagements spanned the hardware stack including custom silicon development. • Structured and secured unique collaboration and foundational licensing deal to support multi-generation SoC program.• Established relationships/programs with compute/accelerator, networking chip startups.• Partnered with M12 to evangelize solution/investment opportunities​ to address ​ML energy efficiency challeng​e.• Engaged and developed strategic partners for development of DNA data storage technology.

Malta, Ny, Us

Led efforts to acquire and develop relationships with new customer segment, namely Datacenter / Cloud / Internet companies developing hardware and custom silicon. Started from scratch with no business won, less than $50M of opportunity pipeline and with minimal customer engagement. Drove cross-functional team to respond to ASIC RFQs, negotiated and closed agreements, and managed account activities.• Developed relationships and beachhead engagements with Google (Infrastructure, Consumer, Nest, Waymo, X), Facebook (Infrastructure, Oculus) and Amazon (AWS, Lab126), securing multiple design wins, $1B+ opportunity pipeline.• Leveraged strategic roadmap alignment on leading edge processes, IP, packaging, and memory to solution ML, AR/VR, IoT, ADAS ASICs and silicon photonic ICs.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Guided marketing function as part of new executive team that restructured 30-year-old software company. Tasked with building product marketing function and team from inception. Established formal roadmap processes and re-positioned company and products. Enhanced product portfolio and drove inorganic growth with acquisitions. Defined goal driven marketing communication function to increase visibility and generate quality leads. • Re-positioned products comprised of 5+ categories and 30+ design tools into solution-based portfolio targeted at key growth driver segments such as display and power ICs, enabling more strategic customer engagement and larger $ value per deal.• Supported acquisition process including pipeline development, due diligence, valuation, term sheet negotiation, and integration with 4 closing – Invarian EM/IR, Infiniscale variation-aware design, edXact advanced RC reduction, IPextreme automotive IP.• Executed on global events calendar (40+ WW events), driving industry, customer, press visibility, and messaging of a new Silvaco with ambitious growth plans.• Revamped digital marketing with new website, content marketing programs, and marketing automation systems (Pardot-Salesforce, TrackMaven), leading to 70% y-o-y lift in website traffic, 60% social media follower uplift.

上海市, 上海市, Cn

Launched new product family of software tools to complement company’s industry leading SPICE modeling product. Drove business development to secure first customer wins and partnerships with eco-system leaders. Created and executed on marketing programs to launch product in market. Worked with engineering to establish benchmarking, competitive positioning white papers, and integrate early customer feedback into product roadmaps. • Introduced and secured 1st customer wins for giga capacity parallel SPICE simulator for post-layout analog / memory verification and high sigma yield analysis tools, diversifying company’s product portfolio. • Drove relationships with key partners, including TSMC, driving credibility in newly launched product family, and leveraging eco-system to build prospects pipeline.

Served as consultant to startups in fabless company ecosystem. Co-founded 2 web and mobile applications startups, 1 serving Indian market. Advised social media advertising company on its effort to serve Indian market. • Audience (acquired by Knowles): Voice and audio processor ASICs for mobile products; worked with CEO on multiple projects at formative stage including competitive analysis, product strategy / market validation.• Magwel: 3D field solver EDA software; worked with CEO on initial pitch and applications discovery for 3D device-interconnect co-simulation technology.• AdParlor (acquired by Adknowledge): Facebook Ad campaign solutions; established local sales presence in India and secured campaigns for Sony TV app and Bollywood movie.• CellZapp (licensed technology to GoBindas): Developed text messaging monetization platform for online communities and games with major wins at Mobile ESPN India, Pond’s Bollywood Game of Fame and Hungama Cricket Stock Exchange.• SchoolParent.net: Launched 1st social network for K-12 parents and seeded users at 750+ schools in 45+ states.

Wilsonville, Or, Us

(Solido Design Automation acquired by Mentor Graphics)Served as product manager for software startup pioneering use of machine learning algorithms in IC yield analysis tools. Launched new company website and messaging tailored to analog, memory, and standard cell designers. Supported foundry and tier-1 customer engagements. Worked with engineering to integrate early customer feedback into product requirements.• Launched statistical corners and well proximity-based yield analysis tools at Design Automation Conference (DAC), establishing company as leader in variation aware design methodology

Steered strategic marketing and partnership programs with tier-1 foundries for synthesizable full-custom analog IP startup launched out of Stanford University and backed by leading venture firms, including Sequoia Capital. Expanded role to lead product marketing team to develop and validate roadmaps with lead customers. • Established strategic marketing program with TSMC, propelling new revenue stream from multiple foundries

Chengdu, Sichuan, Cn

Served as product manager for new ASIC product family for startup co-founded by Martin Cooper, a pioneer in the wireless industry. Developed business case, roadmap and MRD for ASIC/SoCs for company’s proprietary smart antenna based broadband wireless iBURST protocol. Established relationships with ASIC, foundry, IP partners, securing ARM license agreement to support product development. • Defined and delivered 1st modem ASIC, required to realize commercially viable form factor / price point for market launch.

Malta, Ny, Us

(Chartered Semiconductor acquired by Globalfoundries)• Managed major fabless customer accounts: design support and post-silicon technical support• Completed 40+ tapeouts: managed activities from GDSII to mask preparation

San Jose, Ca, Us

(IC Works acquired by Cypress Semiconductor)(Cypress Semi acquired by Infineon)• Developed custom foundry processes (example: anti-fuse module as add-on to core logic process)

Neubiberg, München, De

• Established new design center focused on customer specific power MOSFET designs and product cost reductions

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