Jayesh Patel

Vice President and General Manager, Autonomous Vehicles and Automotive Business Unit

Jayesh Patel, VP and GM of the Autonomous Vehicles and Automotive Business Unit (AVA BU) has held senior leadership roles in a variety of roles largely with automotive companies over his 34-year career. Before Jayesh started his career, he earned a B.A. degree in Electronics and Computer Science from Keele University. Jayesh began his professional career with British Aerospace in 1986 and he has spent 27 years in a succession of engineering and leadership positions with Lucas Automotive, Ford and Visteon Corporation in Europe, North America, India and China. He served as General Manager of the Yanfeng Visteon Electronics Technology Company (YFVET) Joint Venture in China from 2011 to 2017.

Shashikanth Jayaraman

Vice President – Worldwide Human Resources

Shashi has worked across BPO, BFSI, Retail, Automobile, IT Services, Consulting, Edtech and Start-ups. He carries over 18 years of experience encompassing HR strategy, HR business partnership, Performance Management, Talent Acquisition, Talent Engagement, Learning & Development, Employee wellness, Manpower planning and Compensation & Rewards. Shashi has provided HR leadership with focus on growth, result orientation and customer centricity in multi-location, fast-paced organisations with diverse workgroups. He has managed blue-collar, white-collar, and pink-collar workforces in addition to an entrepreneurial stint in HR Services & Consulting. He excels in designing, developing, and delivering high performance teams. He has brought business impact through leadership development, cost optimized solutioning and pragmatic HR practices. Shashi is an avid networker, speaks at various forums and regularly invests himself in mentoring fresh talent.

Soumendra Mohanty

Vice President – Worldwide Sales and Corporate Marketing

Soumendra Mohanty, VP of Worldwide Sales and Corporate Marketing, has over two decades of experience in Sales and Marketing with a proven track record in Business Development, Product Marketing, Product Planning & Management. Soumendra holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Louisville and a diploma from Ashridge Business School, United Kingdom.
Prior to MulticoreWare, Soumendra was the VP of Marketing and Products at Occam Semiconductor. Prior to that Soumendra spent over 11 years in multiple senior roles carrying out Business Development, Technical Marketing, Corporate Marketing, and Product Management. As the Head of a Business Unit, Soumendra has built, mentored and managed global business teams and was responsible for introducing new products in AR/VR, USB-C, Mobility DisplayPort, DisplayPort, and HDMI technologies. He has lead the customer engagements and revenue generation in the successful deployment of many new products at OEM and Tier-1 customers across the world and managed to grow the business to a leading market share position in AR/VR, Consumer, and Commercial Computing, Tablets and Smartphone market segments.

Arun Ramanathan

Vice President and General Manager for Media & AI Analytics

Arun Ramanathan, Vice President & GM of India Operations has 26 years of experience in System Design, Project Management, Customer Management and Operations. With sound technical knowledge in High Speed System and Software designs, his experience stretches from hardcore technical development to large scale operations. He has built and managed large size engineering teams and projects. Prior to MulticoreWare, he worked at GDA Technologies/L&T Infotech, VeriFone, Inc and TVS Electronics in various roles.

At GDA Technologies, under his leadership, the India team had grown from 30 to 300 in a span of less than 3 years in System, Software and ASIC domains. Before moving to India, he was the Senior Director of System and Software Business unit of GDA Technologies, Inc. based out of San Jose, California. In his previous job at VeriFone, Inc he was responsible for the Telecom interface and various telecom protocols on the range of transaction terminals. He has extensive experience in working with various telecom agencies around the world including USA, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa and European countries. During his tenure at TVS Electronics he was involved in design and development of networking products like ARCnet, Ethernet, SCSI tape drives and other computer peripherals. He worked with different companies in taking networking products to Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Republic. Arun graduated from the Regional Engineering College, Trichy (India) with specialization in Electronics and Communication Engineering.

Dr. Lihua Zhang

Vice President and General Manager

Dr. Lihua Zhang has more than 15 years of experience in networks, game physics, computer vision and pattern recognition, image and video processing, parallel algorithm and software design, complex & heterogeneous system performance analysis and optimization, and high performance computing etc.

Prior to MulticoreWare, he was at NVIDIA as Senior Manager of PhysX, leading CUDA PhysX research & development, including the very first CUDA PhysX porting from Ageia PPU PhysX right after the Ageia acquisition by Nvidia in early 2008. At Ageia Lihua served as Director of Software Microcode and Hardware Content and was fully responsible for the PPU PhysX R&D, as well as hardware content development working closely with gaming industry.

Venkat Bala

Vice President of Engineering, Autonomous Vehicles and Automotive

Venkat Bala has over 20 years experience in software development in the areas of drivers, databases, APIs, applications and performance optimization. Prior to this he was a VP of Technology – Information Technology, group of Merrill Lynch.

He has extensive experience in multi-threaded programming and led development of various applications leveraging multi-core processors. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Bala worked for Indus Technologies services as a Project Manager working with various clients in the areas of application development. Prior to Indus, Bala worked at HCL as a R & D Engineer working on 68030 based multiprocessor systems.

Dr. Wen-Mei Hwu

Chief Technology Officer

Professor Wen-Mei Hwu is one of the foremost compiler experts in the world. He is a Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign specializing in compiler design, computer architecture, computer microarchitecture and parallel processing. He currently holds the Walter J. (“Jerry”) Sanders III Advanced Micro Devices Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Coordinated Science Laboratory. He is a Principle Investigator for the petascale Blue Waters system, is co-director of the Intel and Microsoft funded Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC), and is the Principle Investigator for the world’s first NVIDIA CUDA Center of Excellence.

Wen-Mei’s Ph.D. research was at the University of California, Berkeley under Yale Patt. Their CPU microarchitecture projects, HPS and HPSm, were the predecessors of the form of out-of-order execution that became commercially successful with the Intel P6.

Curtis Davis

Co-Founder & Advisor

Curtis Davis has 20 years of experience in Management, Engineering and Operations for multicore computing, networking, graphics and semiconductor markets. He was a Co-founder, President, and COO of Ageia Technologies, a major physics processing chip manufacturing and middleware company. Ageia was bought by nVIDIA, where Ageia’s technology is adopted in the entire GPU product line today. At nVIDIA, Curtis was the VP of PhysX and led the largest CUDA and OpenCL development teams in the world.

Prior to Ageia, Curtis was a Cofounder, CEO, and VP Engineering of Celox Networks where he managed very large teams building and deploying network aggregation switches from the ground up. He has worked in engineering and management roles in MinMax Technologies, MEMC and Caterpillar. Throughout his career he has focused on multicore and many-core high performance systems where superior performance is realized through algorithm development, and targeting software to specific architectures.

A. G. Karunakaran

President & CEO

AGK has 25 years experience in General Management, Engineering and Marketing for the computing, semi-conductor and embedded markets.
AGK was the founding President and CEO of GDA Technologies Inc., a leading Intellectual Property licensing and electronics design services Company. GDA was purchased by L & T Infotech, India in March 2007. At GDA, he was responsible for leadership development, growth strategy, prudent cash management and worked with leading Semiconductor companies to commercialize the silicon intellectual property blocks. Under his leadership GDA made it to the INC 500 list, Si100 lists, grew to 400 employees, delivered on significant product development engagements with leading systems and semiconductor companies and became a leading supplier of High speed Serial I/O Semiconductor Intellectual blocks. He has deep experience in bootstrapping companies and in strategic M&A transactions, having consummated deals for GDA with L&T Infotech and Rambus.