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Tushar A. Dave |
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Tushar Dave is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of NewPath Ventures LLC, a Cross Border Indo-US venture fund. Prior to this he was a Vice President of Business Development at Broadcom Corporation. In this role Tushar was instrumental in helping Broadcom enter new market segments through an aggressive acquisition strategy. He drove several acquisitions worth billions of dollars for Broadcom in the WAN, Broadband, Cellular, and Wireless market segments. In addition, Tushar developed significant strategic relationships with key customers like Cisco, Nortel & others for Broadcom.
Tushar pioneered the concept of cross border Indo-US semiconductor design and development in the eighties. Tushar created Indo-US companies like Arcus Technology, Inc., Armedia, Inc., and Vengines, Inc., utilizing India's highly talented engineering manpower to do develop Products as opposed to Services.Each of these companies have subsequently been acquired by Premier US companies for superior valuations.
Tushar founded Armedia, Inc. in February, 1997 with a vision to establish Armedia as a leading provider of Digital TV solutions. Armedia structured the core marketing, architecture and customer support groups in the US backed by a world-class engineering team in India, resulting in a highly optimized execution engine. As Chairman, President and CEO, he delivered high quality HDTV solutions for several Japanese companies. Broadcom acquired Armedia.
Prior to Armedia, Tushar was a co-founder and Chairman, President and CEO of Arcus Technology, Inc. Arucs was set up with a vision to develop and manufacture state-of-the-art communication products in India. Tushar successfully convinced VLSI Technology (USA) to be the investor as well as the technology provider. As a part of this thrust, Tushar was responsible for entering into relationship with Department of Electronics ( India) to set up a network of VLSI design centers in India. Arcus was acquired by Cypress Semiconductor for its strong communication products and technology.
Prior to the formation of Arcus, Tushar was Strategic Marketing Manager at VLSI Technology, Inc. He was responsible for the definition and marketing of advanced ASIC software and silicon products. Tushar was also member of Corporate Strategic Team, responsible for long term strategy relationships with large customers and partners such as IBM, DEC, Philips, Mitsubishi, and Hitachi.
Prior to VLSI, Tushar was Design Engineer at Intel Corporation in the advanced processor development group. He participated in design and debug of a 32 bit microprocessor.
Tushar received his Masters of Science in computer engineering from Syracuse University in 1981. He has a Bachelors of Science in Physics and Mathematics from Bombay University.
