Name: N Venkatesh
Designation: Senior Director, Engineering
Company: Silicon Labs
 
Education: M.Tech, Communication Systems, IIT, Madras
Summary: 
N.Venkatesh has over 30 years of engineering and management experience in wireless system design, IoT solutions, semiconductor design, and avionics.  His current areas of interest are on building semiconductor and system solutions in the field of the Internet of Things with Edge Intelligence. He is currently with Silicon Labs, a leading provider of silicon, software and solutions for a smarter, more connected world. He came into Silicon Labs through its acquisition of Redpine Signals, where he led the development of wireless silicon and system products.  

He is an active IEEE volunteer and was the Chair of IEEE Hyderabad Section in 2019. He is a board member of TiE Hyderabad and helps foster the entrepreneurship ecosystem here.
Mr. Venkatesh holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. He holds 22 US patents, has contributed to IEEE standards development and has written numerous articles in technical journals. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of the VASVIK Award for Industrial Research in 2011.

Entrepreneurship is the art of the compromise.- achieving the sweet centre of how much of your dream can you make happen in how much time and with how much resources and at what cost -Venkatesh Narasimhan