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 electronics field.• 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 personnel, and engineers as well as 100+ global corporate resources. Planned and managed $50M R&D budget to drive business in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. Created the vision, mission, and business plan to achieve immediate and long-term goals. Established and sustained relationships with customers and partners at the executive level.• 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 consortium efforts.• 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 (including 40%+ for Memory and 80%+ for MMIC).• 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 transparent accountability.• 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 model and customer alliance under a tight budget.• Instituted game-changing partnership/alliance business model for launch of new image sensor business within the security camera market in Brazil, with products introduced within 12 months.

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 that included product planning/architecture, engineering, marketing, FAE, and product management personnel. Guided team in performing market and competitive analysis, establishing market segmentation and positioning solutions, and developing business plan with product roadmap and specifications. • 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, high-profitability business with over 35% SOM. • 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, GSI, NEC, and ISSI, for product roadmapping, business model, and JEDEC standardization initiatives.

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. Secured seed money for initial financing and led all start-up phases, including department build-out of Engineering, Operations, Legal, Finance, Marketing, other teams and employee recruitment for three core teams.• Design center received Sony CEO Award in 1995

B.Tech., Electronics Engineering

M.S., Electrical Engineering

Education record

M.B.A.