Vendor Presentation: Kovair's Value Add for IT Projects in Today's Environment
Bipin Shah - Chairman & CEO, Kovair Software

About the Speaker

Bipin Shah has a strong record of accomplishment as a senior executive and as a successful early stage investor in more than a dozen companies. He assumed the role of CEO and Chairman of Kovair in August 2005. After a varied career at Fairchild Semiconductor where he held Engineering, Manufacturing and Business Unit Management responsibilities, Bipin joined Altera Corporation, a leading manufacturer of programmable logic devices at its early inception in 1984. As a member of Altera’s executive management team, he held positions of VP, Operations and President of Altera Japan, and was operationally responsible for revenue growth from zero to over $500 million run rate in 1994, and participated in Altera’s IPO in 1989. From 1997 to 1999, Bipin served as President and CEO of a chip srartup Invox Technology, whose multi-level Flash memory technology was acquired by SanDisk Corporation. Between the years 2000 and 2005, Bipin was a co-founder and general partner of an early stage venture investment fund, INC3 Ventures based in Silicon Valley.

Bipin is one of the founding Charter Members of The Indus Entrepreneurs – TiE, a global organization of entrepreneurs that fosters and mentors entrepreneurs. He is a member of the National Development Council at California Polytechnic University at Pomona California He supports many civic and charitable organizations such as the Ekal Vidyalay foundation for rural literacy in India, the Cupertino Education Endowment Foundation and most recently is one of the founding board members for the IIT Gandhinagar Foundation.

Bipin currently serves on the Boards of three startup companies, and has previously served on the Boards of more than ten venture capital backed companies. Bipin holds a MS degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a BEE (Honors) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.