Kaushal Vora Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Koto-ku, Toyosu, Tokyo, JP

Koto-ku, Toyosu, Tokyo, JP

• Head - Business Acceleration & Global Ecosystem
• Define & setup ecosystem program at Renesas from scratch with expectation to scale program 2x yoy in first 3 yrs
• Lead a global team of 8 marketers & apps engineers to develop plug & play software building blocks in collaboration with key technology partners to complement & expand Renesas offerings
• Drive organic/ inorganic growth by scouting for technology nuggets within broad IoT technology areas of Security, FuSa, AI/ ML, HMI/ VUI, Connectivity, Cloud, Sensing & Control
• Scale revenue growth by enabling e-Commerce ready solutions through traditional & non-traditional channels
• Focus on problem solving by developing market & customer centric solutions Head - Healthcare Segment: (2017-19)

Koto-ku, Toyosu, Tokyo, JP

• Lead a global team of 6 marketers to develop and define end-to-end solutions for the Healthcare & Wearables segment achieving annual revenue exceeding $50M
• Manage a portfolio of Bluetooth Smart (BLE) products & solutions combined with development of key partnerships critical to Renesas’ success in a brand new market
• Formulate 5-year strategic vision and financial plan for segment presented bi-annually to executive management & Japanese investment committee
• Proposed 4+ MRDs & PRDs with lead customer engagements resulting in competitive proposals with prioritized features
• Defined solutions & products in multiple MCU & MPU families & embedded platforms enabling $150M SAM expansion
• Created compelling marketing collateral, developed clear messaging & conducted regular webinars to educate the sales force & channel partners on product value proposition

Dallas, Texas, US

Irvine, CA, US

• Helping shape the CX curriculum at UCI through Industry perspectives
• Advisor to faculty and students

San Jose, CA, US

• Managed the Communications vertical segment for Cypress’s flagship PSoC 8051 and ARM-Cortex M product families targeting a SAM of $300M servicing the networking, telecom infrastructure, server/datacenter and storage.
• Led a cross-functional team of 7 to define and develop reference designs for Power Supervision, Thermal Management, Optical Module Management and SSD Management targeting high reliability telecom and enterprise.
• Drove key opportunities at 10 strategic accounts in 12 countries across US, Asia, Europe and Japan
• Rapidly grew design wins from $0-30M by penetrating strategic platforms at Tier 1 telecom and networking accounts
• Defined next-generation products based on lead customer feedback enabling $100M SAM expansion
• Developed 5-year strategic and financial plan for the segment approved by executive management

San Jose, CA, US

• Led field support and next-generation product discussions at key solid-state LED lighting accounts in US, Netherlands, China, Taiwan and Korea resulting in over 20 design wins
• Managed a strategic program for a large lighting OEM involving a global cross-functional team of designers, applications engineers and consultants to deliver a US DOE L-prize winning dimmable LED lamp for 60W.
• Created technical collateral for AC-DC and PowerPSoC DC-DC products - product datasheets, sales and technical training content, customer demos and co-authored 3 application notes
• Defined and managed internal roadmap to deliver 10 market-ready reference designs for incandescent replacement LED lamps
• Qualified and integrated 5 design partners into Cypress’s design partner eco-system
• Conducted quarterly training and business reviews with distribution and design partners

Phoenix, AZ, US

• Developed and implemented a multispeed electronic blender controller based on Freescale HC08 microcontroller platform
• Developed RF tagging system based on Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller platform

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

• Developed and Implemented GPS Navigation System based on 8051 microcontroller platform

Master Of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics Engineering

Higher Secondary Certificate, Science & Electronics

Secondary School Certificate