People Behind MosChip
Meet the MosChip Leadership Team
Executive Leadership
Mr. Srinivasa Kakumanu, commonly known as “KS,” possesses an extensive professional background spanning over 28 years within the Semiconductor industry. His notable accomplishments include the co-founding of First Pass Semiconductors Pvt Ltd, a prominent VLSI design services organization established in December 2010. Throughout his illustrious career, KS has played a key role in leading numerous ASIC tape-outs across the Communication, Networking, Consumer, and Computing sectors.
Under KS’s leadership, First Pass experienced significant growth, evolving into a thriving organization boasting more than 210 employees by FY18. This remarkable journey culminated in the acquisition of First Pass by MosChip in July 2018, all while maintaining a profitable trajectory since inception. Following the acquisition, KS assumed the role of heading the Semiconductor Business Unit at MosChip, steering it to remarkable heights.
Before his tenure at First Pass, KS held the position of General Manager for the VLSI group at Cyient (formerly known as Infotech Enterprises) in India. His career also includes stints with notable organizations such as TTM Inc. in San Jose, US; TTM India (acquired by Infotech in September 2008) Pvt Ltd in Hyderabad, India; Ikanos Communications in Fremont, US; QualCore Logic Ltd in India, and HAL in Hyderabad, among others.
KS maintains his commitment to professional education by actively teaching Digital Design and Physical Design at MosChip Institute of Silicon Systems Pvt Ltd, a training institute he co-founded, which was subsequently acquired by MosChip in July 2018. His international experience includes a seven-year tenure in the United States between 2000 and 2007, where he contributed to 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.
Mr. Jayaram Susarla, a distinguished professional holding both a Chartered Accountancy (CA) qualification and an MBA from the prestigious Indian School of Business (ISB), embodies an unparalleled blend of expertise in various facets of finance. With a profound understanding of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), operational excellence, debt syndication, investor relations, and operations management, Mr. Jayaram Susarla, is primarily responsible for steering the strategy of our organization. Proficient in navigating M&A transactions, evaluating global opportunities, negotiating deals, and seamlessly integrating acquired entities, thus creating substantial value for the Company.
Furthermore, his expertise in debt syndication and investor relations underscores his ability to optimize capital structure and foster strong relationships with stakeholders / Investors.
He has over 18+ years of experience and has worked in Media entertainment, animation & consulting domains & he has been part of MosChip leadership since Dec 2017
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. 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.
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. 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.
Sribash Dey is the Sr. Vice President of Sales who brings a wealth of expertise to MosChip. His primary focus is to foster the growth of our Embedded Business. Sribash will channel his sales efforts toward acquiring new customers in North America and Europe, particularly targeting System/OEM companies.
With over 35 years of experience in sales and business development, Sribash has made significant contributions throughout his career. He has held executive sales roles at renowned organizations such as Sasken Technologies, eInfochips, NetBrahma Technologies, HCL Technologies, and HCL Hewlett Packard. Notably, Sribash spent a substantial portion of his career, spanning 15+ years, at eInfochips, where he played a pivotal role in the growth of the Embedded Business.
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.
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.
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.