Praveen serves several roles at Atheros Communications, a leading developer
of Wireless LAN chipsets, and has been an integral part in making Atheros a
successful public company. Praveen has been involved with building the
Atheros Asian support team and has focused on sales and business development
activities in the United States, Japan, Korea, and Europe. Furthermore,
Praveen is in charge of supporting "new" technologies and companies that are
using the disruptive qualities of WLAN. In addition to these roles, Praveen
is in charge of the emerging Indian business opportunities for Atheros and
serves as the Country Manager for India focusing on emerging sales and
business development opportunities there.
Prior to Atheros, Praveen was at the wireless group at Intel, which came
about via an aquisition of Level-One Communications, where he was at prior
to Intel. At Intel, Praveen was focused on supporting Japanese OEMs develop
cordless phone products based on Intel/Level-One technology which was one of
the first implementation of CMOS radios. Prior to Intel, Praveen served as
an RF design engineer at Watkins-Johnson developing base station solutions
for the then emerging PCS market. Praveen received his BSEE from California
State Polytechnic University and MSEE from Stanford University, where he
focused on wireless communication systems. Praveen has a strong interest in
using wireless technology to promote development in emerging 3rd world
countries. .
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