Palmchip’s management team has many years of experience in senior leadership positions in Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley startups. Palmchip distinguishes itself by the quality of its engineering talent. Products of some of the well-regarded institutions in the world, our engineers come from companies such as Intel, Sun Microsystems, Quantum, Unisys, Amdahl, Hitachi, Oracle, Qwest Communications, Veraz Networks, FirstData and Nationwide Financials. This distinguishes Palmchip from many providers of offshore design services and ensures that our clients experience a work culture with which they feel at home.
Jauher Zaidi, Chairman, President and CEO Palmchip Corporation:
Founder, Chairman, President, CEO
Palmchip Pakistan:
Chairman, Director
Savant Company:
Board of Advisor
(Leader in Int’l SoC Conference)
Education
BSEE & MSEE
Pacific States University, Los Angeles CA
Experience
- Over 24-year experience in executive management, mainframe processor, co-processor, fiber-optic networking design, and system integration at Unisys
- Led the single-chip I/O processor for mainframe computer at Amdahl
- Led mass storage group at Samsung
- Led the flash and disk controller system-on-chip (SoC) integration at Quantum Corporation
- Written and presented a number of articles and papers on the IP business model, future business and technology trends
- Participated in many system-on-chip panels, and is a recognized expert in the area of SoC development
- Holds several patents on SoC technology and infrastructure
Innovations
- Pioneer in Channel based SoC interconnect architecture, bringing mainframe approach onto a single chip
- Pioneered the SoC Platform IP licensing business model
- founded SiliconPakistan organization to bring SoC technologies to Pakistan
- Invented the CoreFrame SoC Integration Architecture
Maha Zaidi, Executive Vice President and CFO
Palmchip Corporation:
Director and Vice President
Palmchip Pakistan:
Director
Education
BSEE
Pacific States University, Los Angeles CA
Experience and Responsibilities
- Involved in management for a number of start-up companies, handling various functions including finance and marketing
- Responsible for overall financial activities and for multiple corporate functions, including human resources, corporate administration, tax and patents
- Serves as a treasurer
Anjum Farooq Chohan, SVP Business Development & Sales Education
BSEE
University of California, USA.
MBA(International Business Development)
University of California, USA.
Experience & Expertise
- Over 23 - years of executive management experience in business development, sales and marketing, worldwide professional technical services, Applications and continuations engineering in Silicon Valley USA.
- Held Full P&L responsibility for business unit budgets ranging from $4M up to $200M.
- Managed fortune 500 company’s 200+ engineering and none engineering personals globally at Seagate Technology USA, Specialix USA and Maxoptix Corporation USA.
- Helped negotiated R&D debt relief of $40M of Maxoptix Corporation USA from Mother company Kubota Corp. (Japan). Helped raised angle/seed round of money twice of total $20 million.
- Planned and helped management acquire an automation Technology Company in year 2000.(Breece Hill Technology, Boulder Colorado USA)
- Extensive experience in SAN/NAS/RAID storage solutions, networks, disk/MO/Tape drives firmware, cache buffer management and automation technologies.
- Award winning record of achievement in customer satisfaction and technology solutions of fortune 100 OEM’s and distributions channel. A strong leader and customer advocate with “customer is always first” attitude.
- Developed business relations and sold quality products to world top companies like General Electric, AT&T, MCI, Sprint, Nokia, Ericssion, Lockeed Martin, US Gov.,Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Lawrence Livermore labs, US Navy, NASA, US defense and many more.
Amar Maqsood, SVP Business Development and Sales, USA
Palmchip Pakistan:
Director
Education
EE & Business Management Degrees
Experience & Expertise
- Over 16 years of diverse business development, sales and engineering experience
- served at various key positions with AT&T, Sprint, and Hitachi
- exceptional qualities in building customer relationships, and managing complex deals
- Previously, he led sales team generating over $200 million annual base revenue and consistently outperformed his peers in industry
Shahid Ali, General Manager Finance & Operations Education
BA in Commerce & MA in Economics
University of Sindh
Designations
Chartered Certified Accountant – ACCA-UK
Chartered Management Accountant - ICMAP
Chartered Secretary - ICSP
Experience
- 17 years experience of financial reporting & General Management in the Hi-Tech Industry and tangible goods industry of Pakistan
- Prior to Palmchip, worked in TRG; a leading BPO company in the world, CresSoft Pakistan; a leading software services company and CresSoft Inc. U.S.
- Represented software industry & worked with State Bank of Pakistan to finalize the export finance scheme
Responsibilities
- Responsible for the financial planning, control and reporting of Palmchip Pakistan Operations as well as all taxation matters, statutory compliance, Human resource and admin functions
Arshad Riazuddin, Senior Director Engineering
Education
BSEE & MSEE
University of Texas, Arlington
Experience & Expertise
- 20-years of experience in ASIC, design and verification.
- Prior to Palmchip worked at Communication Enabling Technologies, Sun Microsystems, IDT, and Via Technologies.
- Led the development and participated in design, test and verification of ASIC and SoC for embedded and high performance computing systems.
Usman Ahmad, Director Engineering (IT Outsourcing)
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin
Experience & Expertise
- Over 10 years of experience in software engineering and management.
- Prior to Palmchip, worked in Motorola and Freescale Semiconductor to deliver their development tool solutions for Windows, Linux, and Embedded systems.
- Led multidisciplinary (on-shore and off-shore) teams on several projects involving complex customer, stakeholder, and engineering relations.