Entrepreneur
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Entrepreneur at Startup
- Past
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- COO/President/CEO at Xambala
- Vice President Marketing, Network Processors at Vitesse Semiconductor Corp
- Founding CEO/ VP Marketing, Bus dev at XaQti
- Director Of Marketing/Applications at SEEQ
- Executive Engineer at BHEL, Industrial Systems Group, Bangalore, India
- Education
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- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
- College of Engineering, Guindy, Madras University
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Samba Murthy’s Summary
Silicon valley serial entrepreneur and startup CEO from the semiconductor and computer networking industry. Featured in "They made it!", a recent book about silicon valley entrepreneurs (http://www.happyabout.info/theymadeit.php). Direct experience founding and growing venture funded semiconductor and systems companies based in silicon valley and India, managing off shore and multi geographic development teams. Proven expertise in developing & managing successful technology and product strategies. Successfully developed and launched industry’s highest performance content processor three times larger than the Pentium with 500+ man years of development. Extensive industry connections including venture capital, Investment banks to source experienced talent for engineering, marketing and sales. Holds BSEE and MSEE degrees, with multiple patents on Ethernet and data communications technology.
Available for leadership and advisory roles for new business ventures.
Samba Murthy’s Specialties:
New product, technology and business development, corporate strategy, offshore development strategies, Venture and debt financing, mergers and acquisitions, IP management. Semiconductor development of mixed signal analog and large complex ASICs, embedded firmware/software, TCP/IP switching, routing, Deep Packet processing (DPI) including XML acceleration and hardware systems
Samba Murthy’s Experience
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Entrepreneur
Startup
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)
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COO/President/CEO
Xambala
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)
July 2001 — September 2006 (5 years 3 months)
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Vice President Marketing, Network Processors
Vitesse Semiconductor Corp
(Public Company; Computer Networking industry)
May 1999 — June 2001 (2 years 2 months)
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Founding CEO/ VP Marketing, Bus dev
XaQti
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Semiconductors industry)
July 1995 — May 1999 (3 years 11 months)
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Director Of Marketing/Applications
SEEQ
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; SEEQ; Semiconductors industry)
February 1986 — April 1995 (9 years 3 months)
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Executive Engineer
BHEL, Industrial Systems Group, Bangalore, India
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Industrial Automation industry)
June 1978 — November 1982 (4 years 6 months)
Field engineering services, System design, performance optimization for real time control systems for Heavy industry applications
Samba Murthy’s Education
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South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
MSEE, Electrical Engineering, Digital Networks, 1983 — 1986
- Activities and Societies:
- Director, International Students Association
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College of Engineering, Guindy, Madras University
BSEE, Electrical and Electronics, Control systems and Industrial automation, 1973 — 1978
- Activities and Societies:
- Member, College swimming team 1973 t0 1978
Additional Information
Samba Murthy’s Websites:
Samba Murthy’s Interests:
Organizational development, team building, health care and mobile computing applications, data stream processing, Digital photography, Sailing, new venture and product strategies
Samba Murthy’s Groups:
IEEE
Samba Murthy’s Honors:
8 Patents on Ethernet and Data communications technology
Samba Murthy’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- business deals
- getting back in touch
