Speaker Profile

Somshankar Das, President and Chief Executive Officer, e4e

Somshankar Das is e4e's President and Chief Executive Officer and co-founder. He has 31 years of experience in various roles in management, High Tech and Venture capital businesses.Prior to joining e4e, Som was a General Partner with Walden International, a first tier global venture capital firm. At Walden, Som specialized in semiconductor, software, IT service, and Internet infrastructure markets. Som was instrumental in creating a portfolio of service companies including Mind Tree Consulting, Techspan (acquired by Headstrong), Sierra Atlantic, WebEx (NASDAQ: WEBX), and Unimobile. He also established the Walden India Nikko Fund in 1998, the first technology focused Venture Capital fund in India.

Between 1999 to 2004, Som served on the Board of Webex during which time, Webex transitioned from a venture funded private company to a public company listed on NASDAQ. Som fulfilled his fiduciary responsibilities to further Board Governance as a member of the Compensation committee and the Audit committee. Som currently serves on the board of directors of Aztec Software, a public company listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange in India.

Som has over twelve years of management experience in the US semiconductor industry, and was actively involved in establishing Malaysia 's first commercial silicon wafer foundry. Prior to joining Walden, he was Director for Worldwide Business Development at VLSI Technology, Inc. and was previously an Officer in the elite Indian Administrative Service in India for 11 years.

Som holds an MBA from Stanford University and an MS in Physics and Mathematics from Calcutta University.

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