M.B.A. International Trade
B.S. Electrical Engineering

Shekar Rao possesses over 30 years of worldwide experience in product development, P&L, operations, business strategy, marketing, sales, and consulting within start-ups as well as established companies such as Texas Instruments, NEC Electronics and LSI Logic. Mr. Rao is highly knowledgeable in anti-trust issues, intellectual property protection, patents and the promotion of industry-wide interoperability standards and collaborations.

He has been a keynote speaker, panel chair or panelist in a number of international conferences on healthcare, medical electronics, innovation, entrepreneurship and technology commercialization. He was the chairman of The ATM Forum’s Market Awareness Committee, president of the Desktop ATM25 Alliance and a founder of the Gigabit Ethernet Alliance.

As an entrepreneur, he founded startups in the telecom, semiconductor IP and life sciences sectors. He played a key role in five start-ups over the last 10 years, serving as founder, president, and chief executive officer for three of the five.

Mr. Rao has been involved in several professional organizations, including the IEEE Dallas Chapter’s Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (Chair), the Medical Electronics Forum in India (Founding Member), the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.