Pradip Banerjee Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

• Provided leadership on fundraising, business planning, and operational development initiatives. Deliver presentations and develop reports on companies for the CEO, with a focus on bringing Novus into the consumer.
• Developed product roadmap for two start-ups representing two portfolio companies in the consumer electronics industry. Aided companies in product roadmapping, business development, and customer/partner acquisition.

Consulted with small companies in India and the U.S. to complete business plans and develop models.

• Promoted to hold full P&L responsibility for $350M+ Semiconductor business unit. Led team of 35+, including product managers, marketing and sales managers, business development specialists, operations/logistics.
• Led the introduction of high-performance, high-quality SRAM products, leading to $1B+ over 10 years with a 40% worldwide SOM. Developed high performance products for WS/Server market. Led industry standardization and.
• Built and led world-class marketing/product development teams and instituted efficient product development process. Collaborated with Sony leadership to develop new products that achieved dominant market share.
• Reduced SG&A 30% and increased customer satisfaction, achieving higher market share and improved margins. Restructured sales/marketing organization vertically around product lines that empowered employees and created.
• Received SEL-President Award in 2006 for best performing business unit based on revenues and NIBT growth. Selected to participate in high-profile Sony Electronics Corporate Leadership Forum in 2003.
• Grew MEMS foundry business to achieve global leadership position with 90% market for Si-microphone in a 4-year period. Led factory management and workforce in increasing capacity through use of an innovative business.

• Drove worldwide growth of the Memory division. Created and implemented product planning/architecture, technical marketing, business development, positioning, and corporate identity strategies. Supervised team of 20.
• Achieved 10+ year global leadership in workstation and networking segments that generated $250M+ in annual revenues by guiding SRAM product lines away from low-margin commodity business and towards high-end.
• Facilitated $100M+ in annual revenues by spearheading development of SigmaRAM product line for the Network market. Provided strategic leadership to high-profile consortium, including key players Toshiba, Mitsubishi.

• Brought on board to manage CAD, SOC-Design, and Operations departments. Established processes and assembled Accounting, Finance, HR, and other teams for the design center.
• Built and managed state-of-the-art CAD & physical design capability that supported 30+ products with team of 7. Developed 6 products in SOC-Design that produced $30M in annual revenues and 9 patents.
• Founded and grew Sony’s first semiconductor design center in the U.S. Expanded the center to 100+ engineers, a product mix of memory, mixed signal, and digital audio-video offerings, and $250M+ in annual revenues..
• Design center received Sony CEO Award in 1995

B.Tech., Electronics Engineering

M.S., Electrical Engineering

Education record

M.B.A.