. Board Members
Dr. Suhas S. Patil,
Chairman of the Board
Suhas Patil is founder and Chairman Emeritus of Cirrus Logic Inc., a leading semiconductor company. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Suhas spent ten years in the academic field. Suhas was appointed Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT, he worked in the area of Computer Architecture and related topics.
In 1992, Suhas together with other successful entrepreneurs and businessmen of Indian origin in the Silicon Valley formed a non-profit organization called TiE, Suhas was elected its first president and under his leadership TiE became an effective and respected organization nurturing and mentoring entrepreneurs and young companies. Suhas is on the board of Cirrus Logic, Digité (formerly Tufan) and Cradle Technologies.
Suhas received his Doctor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1970. In 1995, his alma mater, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, conferred an Honorary Doctor of Science degree on him for his work in science and industry.
A. V. Sridhar,
President and CEO
A. V. Sridhar earlier founded Neta Inc, a Valley startup focused in the area of data mining and personalization. He successfully sold the company and merged its employees with Infoseek Corporation.
Prior to that, he was a founder and President of Wipro, one of the largest market cap companies in India, focused on providing IT consulting and services, with over 5000 people and $500m revenues. AVS was part of Wipro's initial founding team, and was with them for 17 years in various top management capacities spanning distribution, systems integration, software services and eCommerce. He has managed teams ranging from start-ups to 1000 people and created business in excess of $150 million in revenues. He established partnerships with Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Cadence, Adobe, AutoDesk and TIBCO among others. AVS is also a TiE Charter Member.