Prior to this Vin ( Vinod) was the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Spice Inc. a start up involved in developing innovative "Voice over Internet" technologies for the emerging VOIP market. Silicon Spice was acquired by Broadcom Corporation.

Vin spent early years of his career at Intel Corporation where he rose to be the Vice President and General Manager of the Microprocessor Products group, managing the Pentium, 486 and 386 Microprocessors businesses, generating multi-billion dollar revenues. Prior to his involvement with Microprocessors, Vin was responsible for developing Non-Volatile memory technologies at Intel and NCR. He worked on several generations of products and was a co-inventor of Intel's Flash memory technology.

After 16 years at Intel Corporation, Vin joined a Microprocessor start up "NexGen", as its Chief Operating Officer. At NexGen Vin was instrumental in redefining Nexgen's processor direction and engineering the merger with Advanced Micro Devices. At AMD Vin became the Group Vice President responsible for all of the Microprocessor businesses, laid the foundation of Microprocessor development methodologies, product roadmap and oversaw the launch of K6 - then the world's fastest windows processor.

In 1993 Vin was named as one of the top 25 executives in the computer industry in America. In 1999 he was named as one of the top 100 most influential Asian Americans of the decade. In 2000 Vin was appointed to serve on US President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Vin is a trustee of American Indian Foundation, actively involved in their Digital Equalizer program. Vin has served as a Board member for TIE -a not for profit organization for Entrepreneurs. Vin serves on the Boards of Satyam, Sasken, Hellosoft, InSilica, Nevis, Telsima and Montalvo. Vin has co-authored numerous technical papers and patents.

Vin has a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering.