Santosh Kumar

Santosh Kumar has over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry and is currently the founder, CEO, and CTO of UltraSolar Technology. Santosh has held various operational leadership roles at different companies including Spansion, Sandisk, Seagate, and Bridgelux. In 2003, they founded a Silicon Valley startup in magnetic memory which unfortunately did not see the light of the day. However, this was a learning experience for him. From 2000 to 2003, they worked as a Principal Technology Development Engineer at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. From 1996 to 2000, they worked as a Senior Supplier and Component Manager at Maxtor. From 1992 to 1996, they worked as a Senior Advisory Engineer- Semiconductor Supplier Processes at Seagate Technology. From 1988 to 1992, they worked as a Process Engineer at ST Microelectronics.

Santosh Kumar received a M.Tech. in Semiconductors from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and a M.S. in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.