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December 12, 2005
INTELLEFLEX COO NARESH BATRA JOINS BEGANTO ADVISORY BOARD
Naresh Batra, co-founder and COO of mixed-signal RFID semiconductor manufacturer Intelleflex Corp., has joined the advisory board of Beganto, Inc., software solution provider for demand creation and design win tracking for electronic components.
In announcing the appointment, Beganto’s CEO Sunil Grover described Batra as a “serial entrepreneur,” whose experience in high tech design and development, marketing, and P&L management will bring depth and breadth to Beganto’s strategic planning. Batra was CEO and co-founder of XaQti prior to its acquisition by Vitesse Semiconductor, VP & GM of Sierra Semiconductor, VP and GM of Brooktree (now Conexant), and spent 11 years as a department head at Texas Instruments.
Batra was recruited by Advisory Board Chairman and Beganto Co-founder Masami Yamamoto, a veteran of Junglee before its acquisition by Amazon and Paypal before its acquisition by eBay. Batra joins a number of other high profile leaders in high tech industries in helping guide the privately held Silicon Valley start-up:
- Martin Cooper, ArrayComm, acknowledged as the “father” of the cell phone
- Professor Harry Davis, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
- Shailesh Mehta, president and CEO of Granite Hill Capital Ventures and chairman of Peach Direct, a private label credit card company
- CS Park, chairman of disk drive manufacturer Maxtor Corporation
- Sachio Semmoto founder, chairman, and CEO of eAccess, Ltd and formerly managing director of Kyocera
- Kyung Yoon, vice chairman of Heidrick & Struggles, International and one of the key drivers in its expansion in the Asia Pacific region
“Beganto’s vision is to provide a start-to-finish on-line product information service to the electronics components industry, from search, sample, select, source, quote, order, ship, and along the way assure appropriate compensation to those involved in demand creation. As a small company with big ideas, we are honored that our concepts have earned the attention of these eminent industry leaders, and we value their insights and guidance,” Grover says,
Further information about Beganto, including detailed biographical information about the members of the Advisory Board, is at www.beganto.com. The company is headquartered at 48521 Warm Springs Blvd. #306 , Fremont CA 94539 , and can be reached at 510 687 5111.
About Beganto:
Beganto, Inc. (www.beganto.com) provides the electronics industry a sophisticated web-based system that gets industry participants needed information for selecting, sampling, sourcing, and tracking products through the supply chain. BeON™, the Beganto Open Network, welcomes engineers, buyers, distributors, and manufacturers’ representatives as members at no charge, and lets them enjoy the full features of the system. Component manufacturers become members of BeON™ through paid use of Design Winner™, which facilitates tracking component opportunities from sampling to the point of design win. The privately held company has its headquarters in Fremont, California, and offices in Seattle, India and Japan.
BEG5027 News Release, Advisory Board Adds Batra
December 12, 2005
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