IITD SF Bay Area Advisory Council

Prof. Arogyswami Paulraj has been a Professor at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University since 1993, where he supervises the Smart Antennas Research Group. His group has developed many key fundamentals of a new field called space-time communications theory and has helped shape a worldwide research and development focus on this technology. He is the author of over 300 research papers and holds 24 patents. He is a fellow of the IEEE and the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
Prof Paulraj was awarded the IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award in 1998.

Nimish, as Senior VP, is responsible for SAP’s Enterprise Information strategy and products, including both structured and unstructured data. Nimish joins SAP from Siebel Systems. As group vice president, Customer Data Integration at Siebel Systems, Nimish was hired to lead Siebel’s highest-growth division. In this role, Nimish grew revenue from $10,000 to $70 million in 18 months. Previously, Nimish spent more than 10 years at Oracle. As senior vice president at Oracle, reporting directly to the CEO, he was a member of the product management committee and was involved in corporate product decisions. At Oracle, Nimish was chosen to create an all-new product division to develop and market vertical industry applications in pharmaceuticals, energy, government/higher education, consumer products and MRO.

PK has over 20 years of experience in management of high-technology companies. He is currently President & CEO of TelASIC Communications, a venture-capital backed private company in analog/mixed-signal IC and Radio sub-systems industry. Prior to this, he co-founded Force10 Networks, a 10G Ethernet switch and router equipment company, and was its President & CEO during 1999-2004. PK was also an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at USVP. Before that, he was President and CEO of MMC Networks, a network processor company. PK joined MMC in 1994 in a private stage, focused on creating a new "Network Processors" category for Internet infrastructure equipment and took the company public in 1997 leading it to the market leadership position. Prior to MMC, PK was the Vice President and General Manager of the DSP Division at AT&T Microelectronics (now Agere, formerly Lucent) during 1989-1994. During this period, Lucent's DSP division had 17X profitable growth and became the industry's recognized leader.
PK earned his Ph. D. (Physics) from IIT Delhi in 1970 and an MBA from The University of Western Ontario, Canada in 1978. PK was awarded the IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award in 2002.

Rosen is currently President & CEO of Solidcore Systems. He co-founded VxTreme in 1995 (acquired by Microsoft in 1997), Ensim in 1998, Stratum8 (Teros) in 2000, and Green Border in 2001, Solidcore & Teneros in 2002. Rosen's roots are in technology; he received his Ph.D. and was on the Computer Science faculty at Cornell University. Prior to that, Rosen received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, where he was awarded the President's Gold Medal.

Srikanth Chari is the founder and CEO of Watch360 Systems, a provider of automated competitive intelligence solutions. Srikanth was a co-founder and VP of marketing at CyberMedia, Inc. a software company that completed its IPO in 1996 and was subsequently acquired by Network Associates in 1998. During Srikanth's tenure at CyberMedia, the company grew its revenues from $6M per year to over $70M per year within three years. Prior to CyberMedia, Srikanth was a director of marketing at NetLabs, a network management company. Srikanth is an active member of TiE and serves on the board of Ensim Corporation.