Board of Directors
George Apostol
CEO & FOUNDER, ELASTICS.CLOUD
George has over 35 years of experience designing system-on-chip (SoC), hardware, software, and systems. He holds several patents for interconnect and interface design and has led technology organizations developing products for several markets. He has held leadership and executive roles at Xerox/PARC, Sun, SGI, LSI Logic, Exar, and Samsung as well as start-ups including TiVo, BRECIS, Audience and BAYIS. As VP of Engineering and CTO at PLX Technology, George drove the development of PCI Express switches, which are broadly used in the market today. He received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Shreyas Shah
CTO, CHIEF SCIENTIST & FOUNDER, ELASTICS.CLOUD
Shreyas has over 25 years of progressive experience in the design of semiconductor, system design, and architecture in fields of computing, networking, storage technologies, virtualization and Flash based storage. He has held senior engineering positions at Alantec/FORE systems, Sisilk Networks, Fabric7 system, Founder at Xsigo system, Principal Data Center Architect at Xilinx & Intel and the Principal Architect at PLX. Shreyas received his Master's in Electrical, Specialization in Communications and Signal processing from IIT Bombay. Shreyas has over 15 patents issued and numerous pending.
Dr. Sehat Sutardja
CEO, FLC TECHNOLOGY GROUP
Sehat is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of the modern semiconductor age. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Marvell Technology Group and currently the CEO at FLC Technology Group. He has been recognized and awarded around the world for his achievements in advancing technology through innovation in engineering, driving adoption of technology into new markets and evangelizing the use of the latest technology in developing nations that will greatly impact the future. Sehat holds a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is also an IEEE Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Dr. Naveed Sherwani
CHAIRMAN OF SILICON FEDERATION
Naveed is a world-renowned chip expert, researcher, author of several books, serial entrepreneur and academician. He founded Intel Microelectronics Services, where he pioneered Open methodology for EDA. And later, he founded Open Silicon which became a leader in chip design services. He currently holds several Board Member and Advisor positions and has also served as President and CEO of SiFive, and Chairman of StarFive and LeapFive. Naveed received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.