Management Team

Chairman and Managing Director Ravi has more than 20 years of experience in semiconductor and EDA industry. Ravi joined Silicon Automation Systems (now Sasken Communications Ltd.) in 1991, when it was an EDA startup in Bangalore. He later became the Senior Manager and head of EDA division. He was instrumental in growing the EDA division to size of 90+ engineers. His areas of interest include Physical Design Automation and Post Layout EDA tools. He has several technical papers published in reputed national and international conferences in the area of physical design automation.

Ravi holds Bachelors degree in Engineering (B.E.) from Mysore University and Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT-Bombay. Chief Executive Officer Nachiket has more than 18 years experience in developing and managing EDA tools. He joined Silicon Automation Systems in Feb. 1992 and served as Senior Manager in EDA group, and later as Senior Engineering Manager in Silicon Automation Systems, Japan. His areas of expertise include System and Logic design tools, HDL Simulation and Synthesis. He has published several technical papers and was adjudged "EDN Asia Innovator of year 2000" by EDN Asia.

Nachiket holds Bachelors degree in Engineering (B.E.) from Indore University and Masters Degree in Technology (M.Tech.) from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay. Director Shridhar has more than 16 years of experience in developing EDA tools.He joined Silicon Automation Systems in 1994 and served as Project Leader in EDA group. He later on worked as a Project Leader at Synopsys, India. His areas of expertise include: Logic design tools, Hardware Description Languages and FPGA Synthesis tools. He has published several technical papers in international conferences.

Shridhar holds Bachelors degree in Engineering (B.E.) from Pune University and Masters Degree in Engineering (M.E.) from Department of Computer Science, Bombay University. VP Marketing & Strategy Prior to joining SoftJin, Kamal was the co-founder and Director (Technology) at MeraNet, an Application Service Provider that provided contact management solutions to web portals and cellular service providers. Before that, Kamal worked at Cadence Design Systems R&D center at Noida (India) where he was involved in development of logic simulation products. He has over 11 years of experience in the EDA industry.

Kamal holds Bachelors degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.