Parag is a technology serial entrepreneur with over 32 years of industry experience, out of which 25 years have been in indigenous high technology hardware startups. He co-founded Saankhya Labs and has been the CEO since April 2014. Saankhya is India’s first private fabless semiconductor company building silicon architectures for wireless telecom markets. Prior to Saankhya he co-founded Smart Yantra technologies in 2000 and Vayavya Labs India’s first Electronic Design Automation Company in 2006. Smart Yantra was acquired by Genesis Microchip in 2004. Saankhya was acquired by the Tata group in March 2022.
Parag is considered one of the foremost experts in the world on Software Defined Radios (SDR) and Cognitive Radios as a technology for 5g telecom infrastructure, broadcasting, and is one of the inventors of the 5g broadcast technology “D2M” and the RANWiser a unique Cloud custom silicon platform. He has designed and invented multiple Computer languages and Instruction Set Architectures and is driving the industry adoption of the RAN hypervisor a unique disruptive 5g RAN cloud platform. He is a named inventor on 50+ international patents. Most recently he was chosen in the list of “50 promising entrepreneurs in India “for the year 2020 and was awarded the “Techno visionary – Industry” by the India Semiconductor Association
