PLENARY SPEAKER
Pravin Desale
Vice President and India Managing Director
LSI Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd
Mr. Pravin Desale is the Managing Director and Vice President for India operations of LSI Corporation (NYSE:LSI). He also leads LSI’s Global R&D strategies. He is responsible for regional customer alignments and workflow optimizations for the organization.
Pravin has more than seventeen years of experience in engineering, business management, and development of various embedded technologies.
Prior to his role at LSI, Pravin established Metta Semiconductors in India and served as the Managing Director until LSI’s acquisition of Metta in late 2006. Prior to Metta, Pravin was involved as the co-founder in establishment of Parama Networks (later acquired by Bay Microsystems in 2004), Crios, Inc and Mediamatics Inc. (later acquired by National Semiconductor).
Pravin served on board of directors of startups like Ingot Systems, Inc (recently acquired by Virage Logic Corporation), Onista Inc, Pixelite Inc and Keeno Inc.
Pravin holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University, Santa Clara (USA) and a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from College of Engineering, Pune (India).