Ramamurthy Sivakumar

Co-Founder, CEO

2023 - Current

Founding Investor, Advisor, Board of Directors

2020

Quintar is focused on seamlessly enhancing live sports viewing experience, in-venue, at home and on-the-go unleashing the real power of augmentation.

Founding Investor, Board of Advisors

2020

Cognetry Labs unleashes the power of data and AI to optimize the end-end value chain of retail businesses.

Board Of Advisors - Member

2020 - 2022

Silicon power semiconductors can’t meet the performance demands of many modern products. To perform their best, modern products require a new, more advanced kind of power semiconductor. Imagine an electric car that drives 15% farther and costs up to $1400 dollars less. Or a mobile phone charger the size of a sugar cube. What if we could enable thousands of products to save up to 90% of their energy use? With Vertical GaN™ power semiconductors, we will. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, advanced power semiconductors will enable LED lights alone to save $250 billion in cumulative energy costs1 by 2030.

Vice President and Managing Director, Sports, Health, Retail and other Industry Verticals Sector

2016 - 2018

Responsible for driving equity investments, M&A and business development activities supporting Intel Corp's strategy in Sports, Health, Retail and other industry verticals that span across Intel's technologies and business units. With acquisitions (e.g. Voke VR) and investments (e.g. Venuenext, Scorestream) help incubated Intel Sports within Intel Capital. Investments in bioinformatics (e.g. Echopixel and Synthego) anchored the investment thesis in healthcare.

Vice President and Managing Director, Client Computing Sector, Ultrabook & Perceptual Computing Fund

2012 - 2016

Responsible for supporting the innovation and growth strategy for Intel’s largest business unit by revenue through investments and acquisitions. Managed the $300M Ultrabook (https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-capital-creates-300-million-ultrabook-fund/) and $100M Perceptual Computing Fund (https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-capital-fund-to-accelerate-human-like-senses-on-computing-devices/); Focused on application of perceptual computing technologies in Robotics (Savioke), 3D scanning (Occipital, DotProduct), Nimble VR (acquired by FaceBook/Oculus), Voke VR (acquired by Intel) etc. as well as in core technology such as Display (Nuovo Film), Power supply (Avogy), Battery (QNovo) etc.

Managing Director, Intel South Asia

2006 - 2011

As chief executive of Intel in the South Asia region primary responsibility was the accelerate business growth in the market, strengthen Government relationships and drive strategic market and infrastructure development. Restructured the regional organization, distribution infrastructure and distributors, incentive structure for the team etc., leading to South Asia doubling in market size in 4 years (TAM 6M units to 12M units; $1.5B consumption revenue), Intel market share growing across all segments and overall conversation shifting from tactical sales to strategic market development. Conceptualized and executed a program with the Government of India, the telecom and IT industry to accelerate broadband connectivity and Internet access to a billion Indians called ‘Connected Indian’. Overtime with investments from the Government and from private players in the ecosystem this target was achieved. Worked on a number of programs of national importance in strategic manufacturing, broadband policy and unique national ID project as India was doing through a massive wave of digitization during those years.

Worldwide Director Business Development, Intel Mobility Group

2004 - 2006

Global responsibility to grow the business ecosystem and technology access supporting Intel's fastest growing business P&L, managing a global team spread over North America, Europe, Israel and Asia. Accelerating the attach rate of wireless technologies such as WiFi, 3G and WiMAX through partnerships and other investments was a primary agenda. Platform technologies from batteries, thermal, memory, storage, software, graphics etc. and business infrastructure such as supply chain investments were key part of the focus. Team averaged over 400 business deals a year.

Director M&A and Assistant Treasurer, Intel Capital

2000 - 2004

Lead the M&A program for Intel during key phase of diversification for the corporation from the computing industry to all things connectivity. Telecom and networking industries were adopting standard hardware pioneered by the computing industry and moving intelligence to software. Developed an ambitious acquisition strategy and executed over 2 dozen M&A transactions over a 2.5-year period. The realignment of key parts of the industry such as Optical Networking created tremendous new opportunities for Intel and I had the privilege to drive that program. This period was highly acquisitive for Intel corporation, doing deals across other areas such as memory and storage, in addition to traditional areas like computing.

Director, Intel Capital India and India Technology Centre

1996 - 2000

As one of the first employees sent on assignment to start the Intel India operation, I was assigned the responsibility to begin all strategic program in India "to create a mini-Intel". Build a number of programs from the ground up including a large ISV program for technical training of the software industry in India, University relationships setting up labs in top engineering universities, starting design/engineering activities in India, starting a computer literacy program for schools and setting up computer labs and developing a robust technology PR program. Launched Intel Capital in India with an equity investment in India’s first Internet portal Rediff (exited on NASDAQ). A new program was approved to do early stage investments in India’s nascent venture capital market. Over 15 investments were made in the first two years leading to a number of successful exits of companies such as Sasken Communications and Persistent Systems.

Engineering Manager, Intel Architecture Labs

1991 - 1996

Engineering manager for a number of research and product development projects in Intel labs. As Intel was accelerating investments in bringing multimedia to the desktop PC, we worked on creating new technologies in audio and video to feed the software spiral. Worked on building a number of products such as ProShare Presenter. Successfully launched a co-branded product with CNN called "CNN at Work" build on a multicast technology stack built on TCP/IP. Many of these technologies led to acceptance of multimedia on business and consumer PCs.

Software Engineer

1988 - 1991