Chakki Kavoori

Chakki is an entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience in Technology and Business. He was a co-founder at Teradiant Networks, a 40G networking semiconductor company, raising more than $30M in VC funding. More recently, Chakki was the head of Corporate Finance at Spansion Inc (acquired by Cypress), the largest NOR flash manufacturer with $1B+ revenues. Chakki was also a leading member of the M&A team managing the acquisition of a 1500 employee, $600M Fujitsu Microcontroller business. Chakki had various other Engineering and Management roles at Intel, Aureal Semiconductor, Morphics Technologies. Chakki has an M.B.A from the Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania, an M.S.E.E from the Univ. of Hawaii, and a B.E (Hons) from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani.