Giri Krishna

Current

• CEO and VP Engineering (Software) at Silvan Innovation Labs

Past

• Head, ASP & DLP Software at Texas Instruments India
• General Manager, Software Productization at Texas Instruments, India
• Vice President at Winphoria Networks

• Managing Director at Winphoria Networks India
• General Manager, Competency Development at Lucent Technologies
• Manager, Texas Instruments Software Division at Texas Instruments
• Project Manager at Texas Instruments
• Software Engineer at Texas Instruments

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Education

• Indian Institute of Science
• Delhi College of Engineering

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Industry

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Giri Krishna’s Summary

A seasoned professional with 22+ years experience with the high tech Industry based in Bangalore - 16 years in TI, 3 years in Lucent Technologies & 2 years in Winphoria Networks. Currently engaged in building a electronics design services startup.

The last 12 years have been in a senior management level focused on leadership, building and development of high performance technical teams in the semiconductor, telecommunications and embedded software domains. Early experience also includes development of VLSI CAD software as well as business application software.

Key accomplishments include:

- Expertise across a wide spectrum of life cycles, programming paradigms, networks, communication and technologies. Recognized for consistent excellence in managing the execution, delivery and quality of multi-location software projects.

- Among the first 50 employees of Texas Instruments in India. Successfully led the development, maintenance and worldwide support of a UNIX based CASE tool for generating business applications.

- One of a 4-member core team chartered to set up a 1000 member development organization for Lucent’s Wireless Organization in India. Set up the team in a record time of 3 years. More than 40% of the team had 5+ years of experience.

- Managing Director of Winphoria Networks India - a CDMA softswitch company - which resulted in a $200M acquisition by Motorola.

- Set up a 100+ strong Software Productization Organization for Texas Instruments to deliver Quality Software to key customers of TI. Focused on leading edge technologies including embedded audio, video, audio, and image processing systems spanning products such as mobile phones, cameras, camera phones and audio entertainment systems.

- Managed a 450 member Software organization at Texas Instruments India that supports the $3B ASP and DLP Businesses of TI. Led the organization to a successful SEI CMMI Level 3 appraisal.

Giri Krishna’s Experience

• CEO and VP Engineering (Software)

  Silvan Innovation Labs

  (Privately Held; Design industry)

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Partnering for Technology Innovation with Chip Design, Embedded Software and Systems

• Head, ASP & DLP Software

  Texas Instruments India

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; txn; Semiconductors industry)

  December 2006 — May 2008 (1 year 6 months)

  Responsible for Management of Texas Instruments Software operations in India for the ASP and and DLP Business entities. This involves management of a 450 member team working on embedded software based on TI's SOC solutions. This includes device drivers, Codecs as well as embedded application software for audio, imaging and video applications in the DSP and DLP domain.

• General Manager, Software Productization

  Texas Instruments, India

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TXN; Semiconductors industry)

  November 2002 — November 2006 (4 years 1 month)

  Responsible for the productization of embedded software for the ASP, DLP and WTBU business entities of Texas Instruments. Involved defining and deploying SEI CMMI Level 3 compliant software development processes in the organization. Led a Worldwide Team to define a common SW Product Development Process across multiple BUs. Also responsible for managing a team of 125 engineers involved in the testing of embedded software including device drivers, Audio, Video, Imaging and Speech codecs, multimedia frameworks, GSM/GPRS/EDGE and 3G protocol stacks, applications for digital camera, camera phones, personal media players, DVD players, Video applications, DLP front and back projection systems.

• Vice President

  Winphoria Networks

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years)

  Established and managed a 45-person development team in India that was involved in developing a softswitch (MSC) for CDMA networks as well as developing key features like push-to-talk. Company was acquired by Motorola in 2003.

• Managing Director

  Winphoria Networks India

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years)

  Established and managed a 45-person development team in India that was involved in developing a softswitch (MSC) for CDMA networks as well as developing key features like push-to-talk. Company was acquired by Motorola in 2003.

• General Manager, Competency Development

  Lucent Technologies

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)

  1997 — 2000 (3 years)

  Responsible for establishing a 500-person development center for Lucent in India for Lucent. Job involved identifying key competency requirements for Lucent, identfying project opportunities for execution from India, and staffing and training of team in India.

• Manager, Texas Instruments Software Division

  Texas Instruments

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; txn; Computer Software industry)

  October 1993 — September 1997 (4 years)

  Responsible for a 40-person software team that is involved in porting and support of TI's CASE tool called IEF/Composer on Unix platforms. The tool was used to generate business applications using James Martin's Information Engineering Methodology.

• Project Manager

  Texas Instruments

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; txn; Semiconductors industry)

  January 1990 — September 1993 (3 years 9 months)

  responsible for developing and support VLSI Design rule checkers, VLSI design system object oriented database and translators that converted design netlists from the database to standard formats like EDIF and HDL

• Software Engineer

  Texas Instruments

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; txn; Semiconductors industry)

  October 1986 — December 1989 (3 years 3 months)

  Software engineer in TI's Design Automation Division.

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