N.
Damodar Reddy
N. Damodar Reddy is the founder of SutiSoft, Inc. and
has served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
since the company's inception in March 2006. From February
1985 to December 2005, Mr. Reddy founded and served
as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of
Alliance Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: ALSC). In
November 1993, Alliance completed its initial public
offering (IPO). Within sixteen months, Alliance followed
up with two more public offerings and two stock splits
and, by the end of fiscal 1995, had earned the ranking
of 8th fastest growing company in the U.S. by Forbes
Magazine. In 1998, Alliance was one of the first successful
semiconductor companies to start a hardware and software
design center in India.
Mr. Reddy pioneered both Semiconductor Memory Fabless
and Joint Venture semiconductor manufacturing (JVSM)
models during his tenure at Alliance.
These models were highlighted and endorsed by George
Guilder in his book Microcosm, published in 1989. This
JVSM Model was implemented working with United Microelectronics
Corporation (NYSE:UMC) of Taiwan, Chartered Semiconductor
Manufacturing Ltd (NASDAQ:CHRT) of Singapore and Tower
Semiconductor Ltd
(NASDAQ: TSEM) of Israel. Today, these are the major
global Foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing companies
in the world. Collectively, ALSC invested well over
$200 million dollars between 1996 and 2003 in these
companies. The investments not only provided ALSC guaranteed
wafer capacity, but also generated well over 5x appreciation
of invested capital by 2001.
Mr. Reddy was a general partner of Alliance Venture
management (AVM) LLC., which was founded in 1998. AVM,
as an venture arm of Alliance Semiconductor Corporation,
invested in early stage technology related companies
in areas of telecommunications, semiconductors, EDA,
and biotechnology. Mr. Reddy has served as a Director
on the board of a number of these portfolio companies
including Maverick Networks ( acquired by BRCM ), Malleable
Technologies (acquired by PMCS), Orologic ( acquired
by VTSS ), Platys communications (acquired by ADPT),
and Magma Design Automation (LAVA), which went IPO on
Nasdaq in November 2001. He was also an early stage
investor in Sage Inc (NASDAQ:SAGI) which was acquired
by Genesis Microchip (NASDAQ:GNSS). Presently, Mr. Reddy
sits on the board of several private companies in the
semiconductor, software security, consumer electronics,
and biotechnology fields.
From September 1983 to February 1985, Mr. Reddy co-founded
and served as President and Chief Executive Officer
of Modular Semiconductor Inc. He also served in various
management positions at RCA Technology Center, Fairchild
Semiconductor, Four Phase Systems, and at Synertek in
Semiconductor Product and Technology Development areas.
Mr. Reddy designed one of the first commercially available
Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) devices in 1970
using complimentary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS)
technology.
In 1995, Mr. Reddy was selected as “Entrepreneur
of the Year” in Northern California, an award
sponsored by Inc. Magazine, Ernst and Young, and Merrill
Lynch.
He holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from
Osmania University, India, an MS degree in Electrical
Engineering from North Dakota State University and an
MBA from Santa Clara University.
Chandrashekar
M. Reddy
Chandrashekar M. Reddy serves on the board of Genesis
Microchip (GNSS) , a publicly traded company on the
NASDAQ since its acquisition of Sage, Inc. Feb 2002.
He was the founder, Chairman of the board of directors
and Chief Executive officer of Sage from its inception
in 1994 until its acquisition by Genesis Microchip in
Feb 2002. Sage pioneered image and video processing
chips that have become the foundation for the LCD monitor
and Flat panel TV products. Sage, Inc (SAGI) was a publicly
traded company on the NASDAQ since 1999 and was ranked
among the top 50 fastest growing companies in the Silicon
Valley. In 2000 acquired Faroudja Labs (FDJA) a public
company on NASDAQ which set the standard for video processing
on Plasma and LCD TVs.
Mr. Reddy was also the cofounder and Chief executive
officer of Athena semiconductors, Inc. a wireless communication
business from December 2002 to October 2005 and as a
member of its Board of Directors from Jan 2002 to October
2005 until its acquisition by Broadcom Corporation in
Oct 2005.
Mr. Reddy presently serves as the Chairman of Sonoros
Corp, a consumer product company and as a director on
several other private companies.
From 1984 to 1995, Mr. Reddy held several design and
program management positions at Intel corporation. Mr.
Reddy has been awarded 5 patents. Mr. Reddy received
an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University
of Wisconsin, Madison and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering
from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
Namrata Patnaik
Namrata Patnaik, a 15-year semiconductor industry veteran,
leads the technology development efforts at a storage
area networking start up.
Namrata started CMOS Chips Inc., a design services
start up where she assisted several chip development
efforts for companies like Cisco, Sony, Toshiba, NEC,
Broadcom and many start ups in Silicon Valley.
Prior to that, she spent 7 years at Intel corporations
& Sun Microsystems in various roles including principal
engineer and manager. Namrata has also served in various
engineering roles at Cisco, NEC, Sony, Toshiba. She
has been instrumental in development of over a dozen
microprocessors, SOCs and networking chipsets during
her career, including Pentium, MIPS and Ultra Sparc
processors.
Namrata holds B.E. from BITS, Pilani and M.S. degrees
in Computer Engineering from the Rutgers University
and Engineering Management from Stanford University.
Vinita A.
Reddy
Vinita Reddy has over 20 years of experience in Semiconductor
Chip Design and Development, covering a range of discrete
memory products and high end microprocessors that have
gone into mass production.
She held various Design and Management position at
Philips Semiconductor and Sun Microsystems, California,
USA. She has worked as Senior Scientist in India prior
to coming to USA where she was involved in the design
of Silicon Integrated Pressure Sensors.
She joined Philips Semiconductor in 1984 and worked
on several CMOS Non-Volatile High Speed (EPROM, EEPROM)
Memory and PLD (Programmable Logic Devices). In 1992,
she joined Sun Microsystems and has been a key contributor
in the development of SRAM embedded cache memories for
UltraSPARC I, II, III and IV Microprocessors. She has
co-authored several technical papers on Pressure-Sensors,
PLDs, Microprocessors, SAM Cache and has presented in
many technical conferences.
Currently she is leading the development of Analog
Audio processor chip design team for Sonoros Corp.
Vinita Reddy received M.S. degree in Physics and Electronics
from University of Delhi, India, and the M.S.E.E. degree
from University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1984.
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