Management
InvenSense has assembled a strong executive management team comprised of seasoned technologists, operations specialists, marketers, and industry pioneers. InvenSense’s leadership has years of experience in development and commercialization of state-of-the-art technologies and production for mass-market applications.
InvenSense continues to expand its management team with seasoned Silicon Valley technology veterans who bring expertise in MEMS, mixed-signal ICs and high-volume fabrication, as well as proven global technology marketing and sales management with experience in key markets.
Steve Nasiri, Founder, President & CEO
Steve Nasiri is the InvenSense CEO and founded the company in 2003. He developed the novel product concept of the MEMS gyroscope and the low-cost, high-volume fabrication process known as, “Nasiri-Fabrication”. The company’s patented technology is now responsible for the development of world’s first integrated dual-axis gyroscopes now being shipped in millions of units to major OEM companies around the world.
Nasiri is a 30-year veteran of the MEMS industry with expertise in fabrication and packaging of various types of MEMS products. Mr. Nasiri has been the co-founder and early stage executive at some of the leading MEMS companies in Silicon Valley including SenSym (Honeywell), NovaSensor (GE), Integrated Sensor Solutions (TI), and ISS Nagano. He has been responsible for successful deployment of over 50 sensors and MEMS-based products with cumulative shipments in excess of 100M units.
Mr. Nasiri earned an MBA from Santa Clara University, a MSME from San Jose State University and a BSME from the University of California, Berkeley. He has authored over 50 patents (issued and pending) and many articles in the MEMS field.
Mahesh Karanth , CFO
Mahesh Karanth is the chief financial officer of InvenSense. Mr.Karanth is responsible for overseeing the long-term financial development of the company in multiple high-growth markets, interfacing with the financial community and managing the company's internal financial and administrative operations.
Previously, Mr.Karanth was the chief financial officer of Telsima a leading WiMax company which had scaled at a remarkable pace. Mr.Karanth was responsible for setting up and scaling the operations in US, India and Slovenia. Previously, Mr.Karanth served in Hewlett Packard as Director of Corporate Strategy in Palo Alto. Prior to the merger of Compaq with Hewlett Packard, Mr.Karanth served in various finance roles including Mergers & Acquisitions, Treasury and Controllership, Strategic Finance, equity investment for Compaq, from 1995 until 2002. Mr.Karanth spent seven years at Ernst & Young in Asia where he served as a Partner specializing in audit and business consulting services for primarily high technology and manufacturing companies.
Mr.Karanth has a record of successfully providing strategic investment guidance to high technology companies and was involved in the acquisitions of Compaq, Digital, and Alta Vista etc. Mr.Karanth has a Masters degree in Finance from Bangalore University and a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Secretary and CPA.
Stephen Lloyd, Vice President of Engineering
Mr. Lloyd is responsible for the company’s hardware and software engineering. He is responsible for leveraging the Nasiri Fabrication process to generate the world’s most optimized motion processing platforms.
Mr. Lloyd has over 20 years experience in the communication semiconductor industry. Prior to joining InvenSense, he served as the Vice President of Engineering at Beceem Communications, where he was responsible for RF and SOC IC design, SW development, system engineering, and system DVT, test, and calibration. Prior to Beceem he worked as Director of Engineering for Skyworks Solutions developing GSM and CDMA cellular IC’s. He was also a Director at Conexant Systems, and Rockwell Semiconductor. Additionally, he held IC design roles at Tektronix, Ashtech, and Wireless Access developing precision analog, GPS, and two-way paging circuits.
He received his Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Daniel Goehl, Vice President of Sales
Mr. Goehl is responsible for worldwide sales activities and is focused on working with all key consumer electronics makers to build on InvenSense’s market leadership. He has led similar sales and business development initiatives at companies such as Nazomi Communications, CSI Wireless, Meridian Wireless and Omni Telecommunications.
Mr. Goehl brings over 14 years of senior management experience in sales and marketing for start-up companies in semiconductor and wireless technology markets. He has developed and launched sales channels for several pre-revenue companies that resulted in multimillion dollar revenues and led to successful company acquisitions. He has established worldwide sales channels in Asia and Europe for selling components to mobile phone makers and has sold wireless location management equipment to Fortune 500 companies.
Mr. Goehl has a BA in Economics from the University of Illinois and attended Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan for International Business and Japanese language studies.
Michael Maia, Vice President of Marketing
Mr. Maia is responsible for the company’s marketing and strategic planning. His focus is to navigate our growth into multiple markets and chart our next generation product roadmap and new market diversification opportunities.
He brings over 20 years of rich semiconductor and software marketing experience. Prior to InvenSense he was a co-founder of PortalPlayer (who developed the hardware and embedded software technology in the Apple iPOD) where he served for eight years in various roles including Vice President Sales and Marketing and General Manager and helped the company through its successful IPO. He previously was a Senior Director at National Semiconductor, business unit VP at Cirrus Logic, and held various positions at Trident Microsystems including VP of Sales and Marketing where he also contributed significantly to their IPO.
Mr. Maia has an MBA from St. Marys College, and a BS from San Francisco State University.
Ram Krishnan, PhD, Vice President of Operations
Dr. Krishnan is responsible for world-wide operations at InvenSense including Manufacturing and Quality. He brings over 30 years of cross-functional experience to InvenSense, having started his career as an R&D Engineer and gaining additional experience in Manufacturing, Quality, Marketing and General Management. His most recent positions were as Vice President and General Manager of the Fiber Optics Division at Agilent where he led the $250M, 1200-person division to profitability and later as Vice President of Operations at Avago Technologies, where he drove a major cost reduction program through production outsourcing to China.
Dr. Krishnan has also served as an executive at several startups, as VP of Operations at LuxN, and as VP, Process and Quality Engineering at Ion America (now Bloom Energy) where he established a Test lab in India for characterization of fuel-cells. Much of his career has involved developing and manufacturing high-volume products including sensors, fiber optic transceivers and fuel cells.
Ram Krishnan received his BS from IIT, Madras, India, MS from Duke University and Ph.D. degree from University of California, Berkeley, all in Mechanical Engineering.
Joseph Jiang, Vice President of Business Development
Mr. Jiang is responsible for InvenSense’s business development initiatives that will lead company into providing complete solutions for our key customers serving DSC, DVC, PND and Handsets markets. Previous to Invensense, he was the founder and CEO of Mobilic Technology where his multimedia chips successfully penetrated into the mobile phone markets. Prior to that, Mr. Jiang was vice president of marketing and sales at IC Media Technology, a pioneering company in CMOS image sensors where he successfully led IC Media's worldwide marketing and sales team to achieve design wins at leading digital and PC cameras and camera phone module makers in China and Taiwan.
Mr. Jiang brings over 20 years of senior management experience in marketing and sales in the semiconductor industry at other companies including NeoParadigm Labs, Applied Materials and Cadence Design Systems He has successful defined and launched several market leading products.
Mr. Jiang has a BS in Electronics Engineering from National Chiao Tung University in HsinChu, Taiwan and MS in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University.