Mr. Nohria has served as a member of our board of directors since 1999 and is the Ex-Chairman of Crompton Greaves Ltd. He holds positions in numerous industry associations, professional bodies, educational and research institutes. Mr. Nohria also serves as Chairman of the Board for a number of Indian companies. He is currently President of ASSOCHAM and also Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology. In the past he has been President of the Indian Electrical Electronics Manufacturers Association, President of the All India Management Association, President of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry, President of the Indian Institute of Industrial Engineering, President of the Indian Society for Value Engineering.

He graduated in Electrical Engineering from Benares Engineering College, Benares Hindu University, India.

Mr. Sanghvi has served as our Vice Chairman of Board of Directors since our incorporation in 1999. From January 1992 to April 1996, he served as the President of CoreEl Microsystems, Inc., a California corporation. During this time, he assisted NexGen, Inc. in designing its 586 and 686 processors. From September 1987 to December 1991, he served as the Executive Vice President of Arcus Technology, Inc., an affiliate of VLSI Technology, Inc. Prior to September 1987; he was the Operations Manager at Verdix Corp., where he was instrumental in designing the first multi-level secure LAN. Mr. Sanghvi has also worked as a Senior Design Engineer at Intel Corporation from September 1980 to September 1983, where he was involved in developing the architecture for the 386 Processor. He was instrumental in establishing a design center in India responsible for designing various ASICs.

He received his MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston and a BTech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

Mr. Nagisetty has served as the member of the Board since the year 2000. He provides the strategic direction and charter of accelerating the company's journey of profitable growth. In addition, he steers CoreEL's business in the domestic as well as international markets.

Previously, Mr. Nagisetty was the General Manager, Technical for CG-CoreEl Logic Systems. Prior to CG-CoreEl Logic Systems, he was with Crompton Greaves Ltd. as the Deputy General Manager, Computers Networking Division responsible for driving the enterprise networking business besides managing technical and strategic partnerships.

At CoreEL, he has been entrusted the leadership role to spearhead the growth of the design services business, which is a strategic growth engine for CoreEL besides his responsibility of realizing the CG-CoreEl's vision of technology leadership in Design Services globally.

Mr. Nagisetty holds a bachelor's degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Andhra University and Masters degree from IIT, Kharagpur.

Vishwanath Padur is a founder member of CoreEL Technologies and is a member of the Board of Directors of CoreEL. As the Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development, he leads CoreEL’s efforts in sales & marketing and business development across all business verticals that include Services & Product Development, Distribution and Training.

Mr. Padur has over 18 years of experience, serving the EDA, Semiconductor and Design Services market. He joined the CoreEL group in 1996 and has been with the group since then. He has held various positions within CoreEL and has been responsible for building a strong, sales, applications and business development teams at CoreEl. Mr. Padur is responsible for strategic planning and developing a long-term business model that provides the company sustained revenue growth and profitability. In addition to setting up systems, standards, processes and enhancing the brand image of CoreEL, he is part of the core management team that ensures competency development, knowledge creation, dissemination and deployment within CoreEL.

Prior to CoreEL, Mr. Padur served as the Sales Manager at CG-CoreEl Logic Systems Ltd., where he was one of the key members of the group that was instrumental in growing the semiconductor and EDA distribution business. Prior to Logic Systems, he held Senior Sales and Technical Support positions at CMR Design Automation Pvt. Ltd., and IDM Ltd, supporting Racal-Redac, Analogy and Viewlogic products.

Mr. Padur received his Bachelors degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from SJCE, Mysore University.