Rajesh Shah, CEO

Rajesh Shah is a serial entrepreneur with more than 17 years of experience in engineering and business development of semiconductors. His strength lies in identifying and unlocking the optimal value for customers in technology products and services.

Prior to Sibridge, Rajesh Shah started and managed the IP and System Solutions group for Open- Silicon, one of the fasted growing fabless ASIC companies in the industry.

Previously, Rajesh Shah was CEO of chip startup Xpedite Communications (successfully acquired by Multilink Technologies, now part of Vitesse). Xpedite Communication was the first chip company to develop an ASIC for 16G Ethernet processing engine with multiple end applications (Router aggregation, VCAT or VOD). Before Xpedite, Rajesh was a founding employee of Photuris (acquired by Meriton Networks Inc.), where he managed 2 ASICs for 10G MPLS switch over DWDM. Rajesh started his career as an UltraSPARC design engineer at Sun before leading an ASIC at Pipelinks (acquired by Cisco).

Rajesh has a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Samir Shroff, V.P. Engineering

Samir is a veteran of the Silicon Valey with more than 15 years of experience leading chip design teams at Broadcom, LSI Logic and eInfochips.His strength lies in building strong chip DV teams focused on right-first-time-silicon delivery. In his most recent services stint, his teams successfully executed more than 50 chip verification projects for leading chip companies.

Samir has a Masters in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Northridge.

Tapan Joshi, V.P. Marketing

Tapan has more than 12 years of high-technology marketing with leading Silicon Valley companies like LSI Logic, Infineon, Sun, and Nucore. He brings a unique blend of chip products and services expertise to the Sibridge team. Tapan’s strength lies in identifying customer needs and providing innovative solutions to meet their requirements.

Tapan has a Masters in Computer Engg from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a MBA from the Univ. of California at Berkeley.