People Behind MosChip
Meet the MosChip Leadership Team
Executive Leadership
Mr. Venkata Sudhakar Simhadri is a serial entrepreneur and proven executive in the semiconductor industry. He was the Founder, President & CEO of Gigacom Semiconductor LLC & Founder / Director of Gigacom India (Both the Companies acquired by MosChip) and the driving force behind establishing IP licensing and design services business with leading semiconductor companies. Earlier to Gigacom, Venkata was the Founder, President & CEO of Time-to-Market (TTM) from 1998 till its acquisition by Cyient in 2008 and was its head of the Hi-tech Business Unit till 2012. Venkata has 30+ years of experience, primarily working in the USA and India region. He did his B.E. from Andhra University and MS from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).
Mr. Jayaram Susarla is a chartered accountant with around 20+ years of experience in operations, M&A, Budgeting, Strategy, Digital transformation, banking & finance, treasury, Taxation and investor relations, etc.
Currently handling Accounts & Finance l Legal l Administration l Business integration Functions at Moschip Technologies, he plays a key role in designing and implementing Strategy along with senior leadership.
Worked in a senior leadership role in Star India Private Limited, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of 21st Disney, DQ Entertainment (International) Limited
He is also currently perusing an MBA Strategy at the Indian School of Business (ISB) – Batch of 2022
Mr. Srinivasa Kakumanu (commonly referred to as “KS”) comes with more than 27 years of experience in the Semiconductor industry sector. Not only has he co-founded First Pass Semiconductors Pvt Ltd, a VLSI design services organization, in December 2010, but over the past 27+ years, KS has been involved in multiple ASIC tape-outs with respect to Communication, Networking, Consumer, and Computing industries. KS was instrumental in growing First Pass to a 210+ employees’ organization by the time it was acquired by Moschip in July 2018. After the acquisition, KS has been heading Semiconductor Business Unit at Moschip. Before First Pass, KS worked as a General Manager for the VLSI group at Cyient (formerly known as Infotech Enterprises) in India. Even before that, KS worked for TTM inc., San Jose, US; TTM India (TTM was acquired by Infotech in Sept 2008) Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad, India; Ikanos Communications, Fremont, US; QualCore Logic Ltd, India, and HAL, Hyderabad, India, etc.
KS also stays in touch with his professional teaching side by actively teaching Digital Design and Physical Design at MosChip Institute of Silicon Systems Pvt Ltd (formerly known as Institute of Silicon Systems), a training institute he co-founded and was acquired by Moschip in July 2018. KS worked in the US for about 7 years between 2000-2007 with TTM inc. and Ikanos Communications.
He holds a B.E degree in E.C.E from the University College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.
Rajesh Shah is a serial entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience in engineering and business development of semiconductors and systems. His strength lies in identifying and unlocking the optimal value for customers in technology products and services.
Rajesh Shah became part of Moschip Technologies, thru the acquisition of Softnautics. Prior to Softnautics, Rajesh Shah started Sibridge Technologies, an IP company which was a pioneer in System Verilog based Multi-Methodology capable VIP, which was acquired by large EDA Company. During the same time, Rajesh as CEO had successfully turned-around Strix Systems, a Wireless Mesh company.
Rajesh started his career as an UltraSPARC design engineer at Sun before leading an ASIC at PipeLinks (acquired by Cisco). In 1999, Rajesh joined as a founding employee of Photuris (acquired by Meriton Networks Inc.). After Photuris, Rajesh founded and managed as CEO, Networking ASIC company, Xpedite Communication (successfully acquired by Multilink Technologies, now part of Micro Semi). In 2003, Rajesh joined as founding employee and had managed the IP and System Solutions group for Open-Silicon, one of the fastest growing fabless ASIC companies in the industry.
He is a graduate from University of Texas Austin alumni with a Masters in Electrical Engineering.
Mr. Giri Kondaveeti has over 15 years of experience in the field of Management and Business development in the VLSI industry and is an expert on the operations front. Prior to Co-founding First Pass Semiconductors, he has worked with InfoTech Enterprises Limited and TTM India Pvt Ltd under the position of GM-Operations. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Osmania University.
Presently he heads Training and Development at MosChip Technologies along with taking care of Human Resource, Finance, IT, and Business Development at First pass and is also in charge of the operations and management at MosChip Institute of Silicon Systems.
Mr. Suresh Varma is a graduate in Arts and has a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management. He has a very rich experience in senior roles that are varied and diversified. He shouldered various responsibilities as General Manager (GM), SGM, AVP, and VP in TV, Information, Media and Entertainment Industry like DISTRIBUTION, PRODUCTION, Events And new Business Development. He started his career with Ramoji film city and has been associated with big names like ETV, MAA TV, and STAR India for a long time during which he was responsible for organizing high-profile events, programs and built strong distribution channels with high growth revenues.
He has versatile leadership qualities that make him very enterprising to take up new and challenging roles. Currently, he is the Senior VP – Business Development, IoT Products & Institutional Sales at MosChip Technologies Limited.
He is highly people-centric and is very comfortable with persons of any temperament and can easily mend and mentor them to do a great job. His attitude to respect people and help them realize their self-actualization makes him endeared to the teams and produce great results. He was lauded for his excellent marketing and execution strengths by many industry leaders that he worked for. He believes in continuous learning, has very affable manners, and always rolls up his sleeves with alacrity when needed despite the strategic roles that he is Suresh is a graduate in Arts and has a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management.
Mr. AJN Rao is Senior Vice President of Product Engineering Services at MosChip and responsible for Embedded Products, Platform Design Services involving high speed and complexity towards Storage, Computing, Networking, Mobile & Defence Product segments including form factor designs. AJN has over 25 years of experience in Project Management, System Design, Application Engineering, IP Characterization, Product /Post-Silicon Validation, QA & Technical Support activities with an emphasis on SoC / ASIC / FPGA / Software-based products. He has good exposure to Mobile Product Segment, Semiconductors & Consumer Electronic Industry having served in different capacities at Invecas, NVIDIA, MosChip, Telecruz, BPL, Philips & Videocon.
AJN has very good experience in managing projects with cross-functional teams & remote teams i.e Sales / Marketing, Distributors, and Business Partners to derive Project Spec, Estimates, Deliverables. AJN has built strong Teams & Labs with advanced, high-speed test equipment like J-BERT, High Bandwidth Oscilloscopes, Sampling Scope, Vector Network Analyzer, Signal Source Analyzer, Protocol Analysers (PCIe, USB, DDR3 / DDR4), BGA Rework Stations, Plunger based Thermal Stations & Climatic Chambers, etc.,
AJN is an E.C.E graduate from NIT, Warangal.
Mr. Swamy is a Sales, Marketing and business development executive with over 25 years of diversified experience in semiconductor startups and public companies with demonstrated leadership in developing strategy, go-to-market plans, product positioning, demand generation, business development and sales.
Swamy is responsible for MosChip’s global strategy for revenue growth in semiconductor/embedded systems business units along with worldwide business development and sales for IP, turn-key ASICs and design services. Prior to MosChip, Swamy was a senior director of marketing at SiFive for SoC/IP products and at Open-Silicon for ASICs. Swamy also held director of product marketing for SoC products at FormFactor and business development, and marketing management roles at Computing, Storage, and Networking business units of LSI (Now part of Broadcom).
Swamy works out of MosChip Technologies, USA office. Swamy holds an M.B.A from California State University, East Bay, M.S from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and B.Tech (Hons.) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
Vishal Patil joined Moschip Technologies thru the acquisition of Softnautics. Vishal Patil has more than 20 years of experience in Product Engineering Services with expertise cutting across multiple industry verticals and working on a wide gamut of technologies including Embedded systems, IoT, Cloud computing, Software engineering, and Machine Learning. Prior to Softnautics, Vishal worked as an Associate Director at eInfochips and responsible for the strategy and roadmap of IoT and AI/ML offerings from Sensors to Cloud for various vertical including Home Automation, Industrial Automation, and Telecom. He helped customers and partners in defining the digital strategy and developing digital transformation roadmaps for the enterprise. He also conceptualization and created Go-to-market strategy plan for new service offerings in IoT/AI/ML technologies. Vishal started his career as an Embedded Software Developer for Industrial Automation Software development and later took responsibilities that involved Architecting and designing Solutions on verticals including Connected Car, Connected Medical and Home Automation, etc. He has an excellent and consistent track record of repeatedly building global new strategies and teams from scratch and managing the delivery. He is an Engineering graduate from Pune University and holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Symbiosis International University.
Mr. Albert is a Chief Architect at MosChip & has a solid background in analog and digital signal processing, analog, digital and adaptive filters, communications systems, circuits and systems theory, system modeling. Over 15 years of industrial system design experience, including voice and broadband wireline digital communications systems 4 patents, 5 US patents pending
Specialties: analog, mix-signal, and digital signal processing, Matlab/Simulink modeling, requirements analysis, phy system architecture.