Venkat
Mattela, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Mattela has over 25 years of engineering
and management experience in the semiconductor
industry. Prior to joining Redpine, Mr. Mattela
was at Network Media Platforms Group of Analog
Devices as Director and was responsible for
the product, strategy and business development
for media wireless connectivity solutions (WLAN,
WMAN). He also led the VLSI development from
concept engineering to release of multiple industry
leading networking silicon products resulting
in a multi-million dollar product line. Prior
to joining ADI, Mr. Mattela was at Infineon
Technologies as Director and was responsible
for micro-architecture and design of TriCore
MCU-DSP processor. He led the team to take the
architecture to multiple silicon implementations.
Mr. Mattela started his career at Tata Institute
of Fundamental Research, India in January 1983
and held various engineering positions at LSI
Logic, LMSI and CMC Ltd. Mr. Mattela has a Masters
Degree in Computer Sciences from Jawaharlal
Nehru Technological University, India and holds
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Kalpana Atluri, President
Ms. Atluri has over 20 years of experience
in the semiconductor industry. Prior to founding
Redpine Signals, Ms. Atluri founded Elite
Design Systems, a provider of ASIC design
consulting services. Ms. Atluri has built
the founding team and helped create the strategy
for the company. She manages the finance and
operations in the US and India. Ms. Atluri
held various engineering positions at Synopsys
Inc, Computer Vision Laboratories Ltd., CMC
Ltd., and Integrated Data Systems. Ms. Atluri
holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering
from Jawaharlal Nehru technological University,
India.
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Mallik Reddy, Senior
Vice-President, Corporate Development
Mr. Reddy is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive
with over 20 years of management and engineering
experience. Mr. Reddy has been integrally involved
in the Redpine Signals vision, strategy, and
leadership and has a very successful track record
of founding and building multi-national technology
companies. Immediately prior to joining Redpine
Signals, Mr. Reddy founded Netcube Systems,
a leading provider of technology consulting
services for a broad spectrum of Fortune 500
and Fortune 1000 companies. Prior to that he
has held key management and engineering positions
in Pelican, Softec, Sybase, SUN, Oracle, GTE
and AC Nielsen. Mr. Reddy holds MS in Computer
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Dhiraj Sogani, General Manager and
Sr. Vice President, System Business Unit
Mr. Sogani has over 16 years of experience in
the semiconductor, system and design automation
industries. In his current role at Redpine,
he has the worldwide responsibility for the
wireless system business unit including sales,
marketing, operations and system engineering.
Mr. Sogani joined Redpine from Wi2Wi, a wireless
subsystem provider, where he served as the General
Manager & Sr. Vice President and successfully
launched multiple products in WiFi, Bluetooth
and GPS markets. Prior to joining Wi2Wi, Mr.
Sogani co-founded and served as VP of Engineering
and Marketing at ICONIC Technologies, a System-in-Package
company that developed products in the data
communication and networking market segments.
Mr. Sogani has also served as Vice President
of Product Marketing and Applications for Sequence
Design, Inc. and has held senior level marketing
and engineering positions with Sapphire Design
and Duet Technologies. Mr. Sogani holds a BSEE
from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi,
India, an MBA from Leavey School of Business,
Santa Clara University and a Certificate in
Marketing from University of California,Berkeley. |
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Kenneth P. Lisiak, Vice-President, Operations
Most recently, as External Foundry Director for Analog Devices Inc, Dr. Lisiak
was responsible for formulating and implementing strategies for all aspects
of outsourced wafer manufacturing management, including vendor selection,
technology transfer and qualification, design support, pricing, production support,
wafer quality, and yield improvement. Prior to that, Dr. Lisiak was responsible
for managing ADI’s internal CMOS facility including process development, yield
enhancement, ESD and circuit design models, and fab operations.
Previously, Dr. Lisiak had been Vice -President of Engineering and Wafer
Fabrication for Theta-J Corporation, including all aspects of product and process
development and wafer manufacturing. Dr. Lisiak has 35 years experience in
device technology, process technology and wafer manufacturing covering CMOS
and BICMOS IC’s, discrete power MOS devices, imagers, and MEMs. Dr. Lisiak
holds MS and PhD degress from Carnegie Mellon University and a BSEE from
Marquette University.
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Narasimhan Venkatesh, Vice President, Advanced Technologies
Mr. Venkatesh has over 24 years of engineering and
management experience in wireless system design,
telecommunications, optical networking and avionics. Mr.
Venkatesh is a key wireless technologist and champions the
universal integration of wireless into embedded systems. His
responsibilities include leading the development of wireless
systems at Redpine's development center in Hyderabad, and
their application into diverse industry areas. Prior to
joining Redpine Signals, Mr. Venkatesh was General Manager
of Paxonet Communications. Prior to that, he was Deputy
Manager in the avionics research unit of Hindustan
Aeronautics Ltd. Mr. Venkatesh holds a Masters Degree in
Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of
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Satya
Rao, Vice President, IC Engineering
Mr. Rao has over 18 years of prior experience
and expertise in microprocessor design, high
speed interfaces and bus architectures, networking
hardware and software. He architects and manages
the development of Redpine Signals protocol
processors, System-On-Chip Architectures and
network interface hardware. Prior to Redpine
Signals, Mr. Rao has worked in various engineering
and management positions in India and in the
US at companies such as Infosys Technologies,
NexGen MicroSystems, and Samsung. Mr. Rao holds
a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from
the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
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Chandra Sekhar
Abburi, Vice President, Systems and Software
Mr. Abburi has over 23 years of experience in
a range of areas including, product development,
management, and customer support. He manages
systems and software engineering and was instrumental
in the creation of Redpine Signals system lab
for the validation wireless systems. Prior to
Redpine Signals, Mr. Abburi led the engineering
group of Exaband in the development of a VOIP
product for their internet-based unified messaging
system. Mr. Abburi possesses a Masters degree
in Advanced Electronics from JNTU, Hyderabad,
India.
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