Anita Biddappa

Anita is an Operating Partner at BVA following a successful 25+ years of global executive leadership in product development across the stack of silicon to systems and client services. She has worked at IBM, Intel and Lattice semiconductor.

In every role in her career, she led that team's transformation to increase impact, extend technical distinction and improve the operational efficiency. Anita has driven work streams around industry partnership, the growth of technology development and moving missions successfully to lower cost geographies. She led large global teams to deliver complex solutions that meet the changing needs of clients and is passionate about challenging the status quo, with focus on innovation, product, and talent development.

Anita has been a speaker & panelist at multiple conferences. Anita has served as an Executive board member for India Electronics & Semiconductor Association and as Advisory board member for Anita Borg institute’s Grace Hopper conferences evangelizing the need for skilling diverse & URM talent in STEM. She is passionate about Inclusion & Empowerment and believes in give back / paying forward and is an active mentor at Women in Engineering program at UT, Austin. Her area of interests are in IoT, Cloud, Big Data and AI.

Anita has B.S. in Electronics & Telecommunications from University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (India) and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Idaho, with a research fellowship from NASA Microelectronics Research Center.