Pradeep Shah, Ph.D., President and CEO
Pradeep Shah is the Founder, President and CEO of Texas MicroPower Inc., an energy harvesting startup based on compelling patented regional university technology now being commercialized with collaboration of other regional academic research groups, industrial collaborations and funded by the Texas Governor’s emerging technology fund.
He has over three decades of broad technology innovation, R&D to market, product and business management in a large IC company and recent experience as interim executive and advisor for startups. He also founded a technology commercialization startup-mentoring group and serves as a Mentor in a north Texas venture accelerator, STARTECH Early Ventures. He provides hands on participation interim management services in preparation of business case and plans, value proposition, due diligence, seed, and VC funding steps that include opportunity analysis, IP assessment, market and technology positioning, VC and alternate funding, contacts, and exit options. He serves regularly (2004-7) as a commercial reviewer and panelist on NSF SBIR/STTR Phase I/II grant review panels and on regional university industrial advisory board.
Earlier as a Texas Instruments FELLOW, with over twenty-five years of innovation and management, he held positions in both operating business groups and R&D environments with expertise in semiconductor based opportunity development. With direct hands on experience of total product cycle from technology R&D, product development to market, he created innovative and profitable product solutions. He led the development of TI’s first several generations of VLSI CMOS technologies, nonvolatile EPROM, Flash EEPROM CMOS memories, wireless core and RF component technologies for cellular telephone, 802.11 notebook PC modems, and personal productivity and home network data systems. Product and technologies developed include rejuvenated nonvolatile memory business, and first set of CMOS products resulted in cumulative direct revenue impact exceeding 2.5-3B$ over the 1985-95 decade.