Announces Executive Council for 2015 -2016, K. Krishnamoorthy is the Vice-Chairman of IESA
India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) has announced its new Executive Council (EC) for the year 2015-16.
Vinay Shenoy, Vice President & Managing Director, Infineon Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. has taken over the role of Chairman for 2015-16, he was the Vice Chairman for 2014-15. K. Krishnamoorthy, Managing Director, Rambus Chip Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd., would be the new Vice Chairman of IESA and Santhanakrishnan Raman, Managing Director, LSI India R&D Pvt. Ltd., an Avago Technologies Company will serve as the new Treasurer.
The newly elected Executive Council members are Ashwini Aggarwal, Director – Govt. Affairs, Applied Materials India Pvt. Ltd., Guru Ganesan, President & Managing Director, ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and Vikram Labhe, Sr. Managing Director, India, PMC –Sierra India (P) Ltd.
Ashok Chandak, Senior Director, Global Sales and Marketing at NXP Semiconductors, who was the previous Chairman at IESA would continue on the Executive Council in his capacity as Advisor. Other members who continue to be on the Council are Ganesh Guruswamy, MD, SanDisk India, Jaswinder Ahuja, MD, Cadence Design Systems, Kumud Srinivasan, President, Intel India, and Dr. Satya Gupta, Founder and CEO, Concept2Silicon Systems.
Speaking on his appointment, Shenoy said, “I humbly accept this great honour to serve India’s semiconductor and electronics industry body as IESA’s chairman. India’s ESDM sector has been undergoing tremendous transformation over the past few years and 2014 was a milestone year in terms of setting the right policy environment in place. 2015-16 will be key in translating those policy benefits into real action and bringing large scale investments. At the helm of IESA, I look forward to work with the Government, Industry players, Academia and all other stake-holders to take India’s ESDM sector to new heights.”
