Gopa K. Periyadan

Gopa is the Chief Operating Office of Mobiveil Inc., San Jose and brings more than 32 years of senior-level management, engineering, sales and marketing experience in multiple sectors of the electronics industry including Product Development, IP Licensing as well as Engineering Services space. Prior to Mobiveil, he was the Vice President of Business development for Product Engineering Services Business Unit, heading its North America business at L&T Infotech Ltd, a $1 Billion+ run rate Information Technologies & Product Engineering Services company inside $15 Billion+ L&T Group of companies. Until its acquisition by L&T Infotech in 2006, Gopa was Board Member, Co-founder and Vice President & General Manager of System & Software Business Unit at GDA Technologies Inc., the pioneering company in Product Engineering Services & IP Licensing industry. Prior to GDA, Gopa was the group manager responsible for System Engineering, Technical Marketing, Application Engineering at OPTi, the fastest growing PC chipset provider at that time. He also spent four years with VeriFone, the leader in Transaction Automation, working on key engineering functions on the I/O subsystems of Gemstone series of Electronic Cash Registers. Gopa holds a BSEE and an MBA from Duke University, North Carolina.