eInfochips announces new appointments to
the Board of Directors
Mr. Jayesh Shah and Dr. Prof. Arvind Kudchadker join eInfochips
board
Ahmedabad, February 24, 2005 -eInfochips,
a Santa Clara CA and Ahmedabad based leading provider of chip design
services to global blue-chip technology companies has announced
appointments of Mr. Jayesh Shah, currently the Chief Financial Officer
and member of the Board of Directors at Arvind Mills and Dr. Prof.
Arvind Kudchadker, Director, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information
& Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar to the Board of
Directors.
"Mr. Jayesh Shah has built an outstanding brand and organization
during his past 17 years with Arvind, and we appreciate the depth
and breadth of knowledge and expertise that he will bring to eInfochips,"
says Mr. Pratul Shroff, CEO eInfochips.
"eInfochips' leadership team and dynamic market vision continue
to attract world-class customers, partners and talent. I am very
pleased to join the eInfochips board at such an exciting time and
I look forward to contributing to the company's continued success,
" said Mr. Jayesh Shah, a Chartered Accountant having distinguished
academic and professional career.
Welcoming Dr. Prof. Kudchadker, Director, DA - IICT, Gandhinagar
on the board of directors at eInfochips, Mr. Pratul Shroff adds,
"The fast growing chip industry will be able to attract more players
and investment only if India can continue to provide trained people.
As per estimates of India Semiconductor Association, currently there
are about 12,000 chip design engineers in India and there is an
additional demand for 20,000 engineers over the next two years.
The academia-eInfochips partnership is our initiative to ensure
that the talent pool of skilled engineering professionals keeps
pace with the demand."
" As a Professor emeritus at IIT Mumbai and with his strong linkages
to the industry, Dr. Prof. Kudchadker is uniquely qualified to help
eInfochips move forward in this initiative and brings an in-depth
knowledge of the academic world. We also plan to be involved in
various link ups with DA-IICT at a later stage for encouraging academia-industry
synergies" adds Mr. Shroff.
"Academic Institutes and industry, which for long have been operating
in separate domains, should rapidly inch closer to each other to
create synergies. eInfochips offers chip design services to world's
leading technology companies. Very advanced work is being done right
here in our state and we wish to leverage that for the benefit of
our students and faculty." says Dr. Prof. Arvind Kudchadker, Director,
DA-IICT.
eInfochips Inc. is a leading provider of ASIC design services,
Embedded systems solutions and IP cores with design centers in Ahmedabad
and Pune. The 20000 sq. ft. design center in Ahmedabad employs over
200 design engineers and provides solutions and services to leading
technology companies like Samsung, Texas Instruments, ATI, Verisity,
AMCC, Rambus, Cypress Semiconductor and Navionics. The company has
recently set up its second design center at Pune for technology
leaders such as QLogic and Tensilica.
The leadership of eInfochips has been recognized through awards
such the recent "CII Emerging ICT Enterprise Award" at the Communication
and Information Technology Conference, 2005, AMA Outstanding IT
Entrepreneur 2004 for its founder and CEO Mr. Pratul Shroff and
"Best Software Exporter of the Year" award by NASSCOM for consecutive
years 1997-98 and 1998-99.
The company has strong alliances with leading technology companies
like Texas Instruments, Verisity, Xilinx, and Wind River and is
an active contributor in various interest groups like PCI-SIG, OCI-IP,
and Intel Developer Network. The company is one of a handful of
Indian companies that provide the entire spectrum of spec to silicon
to system expertise.
For more information, visit http://www.einfochips.com
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