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Rajesh Shakkarwar
Founder, President and CEO


Rajesh is a visionary with a distinguished track record. Through his strategic thinking and exceptional execution, Rajesh has transformed the worldwide landscape of personal and enterprise computing.

In 1994 Rajesh conceptualized, defined and evangelized Unified Memory Architecture. Today it is the backbone of over 70% of all personal computers shipped worldwide. Rajesh created a paradigm shift in enterprise computing by driving a 64-bit architecture through Sun-AMD alliance he envisioned and executed in 2003. Rajesh chaired several DVD standards committees and played a key role in DVD standardization as well as its broad deployment.

Rajesh's 22 years of diverse experience spans P&L, Marketing, Operations and Engineering. He has held senior executive positions at Sun Microsystems and ATI technologies. During his tenure at ATI and Sun, Rajesh created start-up business units and grew them from conception to $300 million and $500 million revenues. Rajesh also held senior positions at Intel, Opti and VTech.

Rajesh holds ten patents and has eleven publications. A powerful speaker, Rajesh has delivered keynote and expert speeches at more than 25 major US and international industry conferences.

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Rajesh Shakkarwar
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