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Pradeep Vajram is a successful entrepreneur and a veteran in the Semiconductor / Embedded industry. He has over 25+ years of experience in having executed, at all levels of responsibilities in design and development of ASIC products.

Pradeep was the President of Semiconductor and Embedded Systesm Business Unit at Aricent until September 2016. Pradeep founded SmartPlay Technologies in 2008 – the world’s first integrated end-to-end product engineering services company. SmartPlay has been ranked the 2nd largest VLSI services company in India also ranked among the Top 50 Best Companies to Work in the GPTW IT/BT category. SmartPlay was acquired by Aricent in 2015.

Prior to SmartPlay, he served as the Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm, heading the India semiconductor division (Bangalore). Under his leadership, Qualcomm Bangalore Design Center developed as a strong center of excellence and delivered multiple 3G/4G products successfully. Pradeep played a key role in helping setup the Bangalore Design Centre (India) for Qualcomm.

Prior to Qualcomm, Pradeep was the COO & co-founder of Spike Technologies – a leading chip design services company. Spike was acquired by Qualcomm in 2004. Pradeep also worked at LSI Logic in Milpitas, CA.

Pradeep has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Karnataka University & a Masters degree in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit (USA).