LONDON – Satya Gupta, founder and CEO of Concept-to-Silicon Pvt. Ltd., has been elected chairman of the India Semiconductor Association (ISA) for the year 2012-2013. At the same time Sanjeev Keskar, Managing Director of PMC Sierra India has been elected vice chairman for the year.
The ISA (Bangalore, India) is the premier Indian trade body representing the Indian electronic systems, semiconductor and embedded software industries and is roughly equivalent to the Semiconductor Industry Association in the United States.
It is estimated that the electronic systems design and manufacturing opportunity – including equipment, components and software – is going to be a market worth $400 billion in 2020.
"I am honored to have an opportunity to lead ISA along with the newly elected EC at an exciting juncture, when the Indian ESDM market is poised for a rapid growth to reach $400 billion by 2020," said Gupta in a statement issued by the ISA. He added: "Our goal at ISA is to help develop a complete eco-system for design and manufacturing of electronics systems and semiconductor products. Working jointly with government, industry, academia and the venture capital community, we plan to create various foundational blocks and programs with the support of government to achieve the goal. Our task is to fulfill this market demand by making India the most favorable destination for electronics system design and manufacturing."
The ISA executive council for 2012-2103 is comprised as follows:
Chairman: Satya Gupta, Co-founder and CEO Concept2Silicon Systems
Vice Chairman: Sanjeev Keskar, managing director sales, India & SEA, PMC Sierra
President: PVG Menon, ISA
Guru Ganesan, managing director, ARM India
Pradeep Dharane, managing director, Applied Micro Circuits Corp.
Ganapathy Subramaniam, CEO, Cosmic Circuits
Ravi Pagar, director, Element 14 India Pvt. Ltd.
Vivek Tyagi, sales manager, Freescale Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd.
Ashok Chandak, senior director global sales and marketing, NXP Semiconductors
Vivek Sharma, regional vice president, STMicroelectronics Pvt. Ltd.
Arnob Roy, president engineering, Tejas Networks Ltd.
Related links and articles:
www.isaonline.org
www.concept2silicon.com
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