Prakash has over 25 years of engineering, marketing and general management experience in the semiconductor, mobile computing, multimedia, digital imaging, digital video, wireless communications, mobile TV broadcast and consumer electronics markets.

Prior to co-founding iKoa, Prakash was also a cofounder, President/CEO and a Director of NeoMagic Corporation from its inception until April 2005. Under his leadership, NeoMagic become one of the fastest growing semiconductor companies and the market leader in providing Multimedia Accelerators to Notebook PC market with over 60% market share. NeoMagic went public in March 1997 and won many prestigious awards in the industry. For two years in a row, NeoMagic won Fabless Semiconductor Association's (FSA) award for “Best Financially Managed Company.” Additionally, NeoMagic won “The Most Respected Private Company” award in 1996 by FSA.

Prakash was awarded the 1998 Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year Award" for excellence and extraordinary success in innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to his business and his community.

Prior to NeoMagic, Prakash served as Vice President and General Manager of Cirrus Logic's Portable Products Division.

Prakash has been very active in local and global charities through his private foundation, “The Agarwal Foundation.” He is currently a member of the Industry Advisory Board for the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Director of the non-profit organization Relief International (www.ri.org).

Prakash was born in India and immigrated to the U.S.A. for higher studies, taking Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois.

Shridhar Mukund has over 17 years of experience in developing semiconductor products for audio, video, graphics, storage and networking applications. Pushing the envelope of IC implementation in leading-edge process technologies, he has continually developed novel design-for-manufacturability methodologies, design automation tools and efficient VLSI architectures for signal processing.

Before co-founding iKoa, he was most recently the Director of Advanced Technology at Adaptec. He joined Adaptec through the acquisition of Platys Semiconductor, where he built the world's first multi-gigabit storage acceleration chip set.

Prior to Platys Semiconductor, he joined the founding team of Lightspeed Semiconductor as architect and laid the foundation for today's Structured-ASIC design approach.

Prior to Lightspeed, Shridhar led IC development at Cirrus Logic R&D in PRML read channel, sound signal processing and graphics. Per Integrated System Design Magazine, he developed industry's first commercially deployed Silicon Compiler in early 90's which generated symbolic layouts from behavioral VHDL of complete signal processing systems.

He started his career in 1985 as a system engineer at the Center for Development of Telematics, India , designing carrier class voice switches deployed widely today.

He has graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and has worked towards a Ph.D. degree at Stanford. He has been granted several patents and has published in the areas of design-for-manufacturability and semiconductor design methodology.

Clement was a Co-founder and VP of Engineering at NeoMagic Corporation, where he built and managed engineering teams to deliver four generations of mobile graphics, video and multimedia IC products. NeoMagic's engineering team pioneered the technology, and was first to bring to mass production the use of embedded DRAM.

Prior to NeoMagic he held several senior engineering positions at Cirrus Logic, building first generation desktop and graphics controller chips using Cirrus' innovative symbolic layout technology, and developing advanced in-house CAD tools.

More recently he consulted on the IBM BlueGene/Cyclops project developing multiprocessor chip architectures and applications development methodologies, and managed Engineering and Operations at Acorn Networks, a startup communications semiconductor company in Northern Virginia.

He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT, where he conducted research in the area of dataflow programming languages and computer architectures.

As Managing Director of iKoa Semiconductor India Pvt. Ltd., Rao heads the engineering centre of iKoa Corporation in Hyderabad, India.

Rao brings more than 25 years of experience in various disciplines including ASIC and system design, operations, manufacturing and technical marketing. Prior to joining iKoa, he held senior management positions at Vitesse Semiconductor and Adaptec's engineering centres in India.

He was the cofounder and VP Engineering of the India development centre of Platys communications, a Silicon Valley start-up company acquired by Adaptec for US$150 Million in 2001. He grew the engineering operations of Adaptec in India to a 130-member strong team with operations in Hyderabad and Bangalore.

Prior to joining Platys, Rao was responsible for system designs and manufacturing operations for several successful products at the state-owned Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL). During his 20-year tenure there, he focused on developing systems for   the Defense, Space, Banking and Government segments, notably the Electronics Voting Machine (EVM) which at the time was ECIL's most successful product, earning revenues of over $300 Million during 4 year period.

He earned a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications from Osmania University and a MS in Computer Science from IISc, Bangalore. Rao is named as an inventor in one US Patent.