Management

Anant Agrawal brings over 25 years of semiconductor and system industry experience to his CEO role at Verayo. Prior to Verayo, Anant was the founding CEO of Insilica, a fabless semiconductor company with operations in India, Slovenia and United States.

Anant spent a significant part of his career at Sun Microsystems from 1984 to 2002. Anant was one of the founding members of the team that started SPARC processor program at Sun. Over the years his teams designed a number of microprocessors and released them to production. For 7 years he was the Vice President and General Manager of the processor business unit. Anant began his career as a design engineer for Memorex Corporation and then joined STC Computer Research Corporation, where he was the lead technical designer of the floating point unit for an IBM compatible mainframe. Anant has also consulted for a number of Public companies and startups strategies and product development. He is currently also an advisor to Khosla Ventures.

Anant holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the MS University of Baroda, India and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Professor Srini Devadas is one of the founders of Verayo. Professor Devadas and his team invented PUF technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA. In addition to providing technical leadership and direction to Verayo, Professor Devadas serves on the faculty of MIT, as the Associate Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Professor Devadas' research interests include Computer-Aided Design (CAD) of VLSI computing systems, computer architecture, and computer security, and he has co-authored numerous papers in these areas.

Professor Devadas joined MIT in 1988, soon after completing his Ph.D at University of California, Berkeley. Professor Devadas received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras (India).

Vivek Khandelwal is the VP of Marketing & Business Development at Verayo. Vivek brings over 15 years of industry experience spanning engineering, product management and marketing functions. Vivek's prime focus at Verayo is the business and marketing strategy for Verayo's unclonable RFIDs. Prior to joining Verayo, Vivek was at BEA Systems Inc. where, as the Director of Marketing, he led BEA’s RFID marketing effort. Before BEA, Vivek spent 10 years at Sun Microsystems in various roles, the most recent role focused at driving Sun’s go-to-market efforts around RFID solutions. His previous roles at Sun were in Java/J2EE, Solaris System Software, Network Computers and Advanced Graphics technologies. Before joining Sun, Vivek was a member of the technical staff at Wipro Infotech’s Global R&D Center.

Vivek has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Institute of Technology, BHU, India, and an MBA from the Leavey School of Business in Santa Clara University, USA.