Business Experts Leading CHiL Semiconductor
David Aronoff
David Aronoff is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners whose investment interests and experience include the semiconductor, enterprise systems, and security sectors.
Prior to joining Flybridge in June 2005, David spent nearly a decade focusing on early-stage investing at Greylock Partners where he led several of the firm’s successful investments in the communications and systems markets.
David holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Vermont, an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California, and an MBA from Harvard Business School
Shankar Chandran
Shankar Chandran focuses on technology investments for Panorama Capital. He has held various engineering, business development, and management roles at Applied Materials and has been granted six patents in semiconductor technology.
Shankar holds a B.Tech in Metallurgical Engineering from the Institute of Technology, BHU (India), an MS in Materials Science from Arizona State University, and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Ronald Chwang
Ronald Chwang is the Chairman and President of iD Ventures (IVA). Previously, Ronald was president and CEO of Acer America Corp and also held positions at Intel, and Bell Northern Research.
Ronald received his B. Eng. Degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
Sean Dalton
Sean Dalton is a Managing General Partner at Highland Capital Partners investing in communications infrastructure and semiconductors. Sean has been recognized by the prestigious Forbes Midas List as one of the top venture capitalists in the industry.
Sean holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Harvard Business School
Dr. Praveen K. Jain
As a recognized expert in the power management field, Dr. Praveen Jain is the innovator behind CHiL Semiconductor’s multiphase transient response techniques. He continues to pioneer new architecture solutions guiding mixed signal power management in the Desktop, Server and Notebook processor power areas. Praveen leverages his AC/DC and multiphase DC/DC expertise to bring system level computing solutions to the marketplace which meet or exceed emerging energy efficient power system requirements.
Praveen is presently a faculty member at Queens University in Kingston, Canada, where he is a holder of the prestigious Canada Research Chair in Power Electronics. He has been recognized as a Fellow in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), as well as in the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) and the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). The author of over 350 technical papers, Praveen holds 30 patents in the field.
Praveen holds a BE with Honors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Allahabad in India as well as a MASc and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada
Ram Sudireddy
Ram Sudireddy leads the CHiL Semiconductor team with nearly two decades of semiconductor experience, including the co-founding, development and successful acquisition of Cimaron Communications by AMCC in 1999. He is an experienced entrepreneur with a specialty in building strong leadership teams and creating leading edge products in exceptionally short timeframes. His vision is to position and lead CHiL Semiconductor to be the leading power management IC solution provider.
Most recently, Ram was Senior VP and GM at AMCC’s Framer Products Division. Prior to that, he successfully co-founded and was the CEO at Cimaron Communications and held key Design Engineering positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Ram holds a BSEE from Nagarjuna University in India as well as an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Sonovi Technologies, a provider of business continuity software products.