Technology >> CEO Interviews >> July 27, 2000

Joseph Vithayathil – Newport Communications

JOSEPH VITHAYATHIL is the Vice President of Marketing and Sales for NewPort Communications. Mr. Vithayathil has over 20 years of engineering, marketing and management experience in semiconductors, communications and software. Previously, he was the Vice President of Marketing at TranSwitch Corporation and prior to that he was the Founder and CEO of Baysoft, a client-server and Internet/intranet software company. Prior to Baysoft, he was the CEO at ITTI Private Limited in Bangalore, India. Mr. Vithayathil has also held marketing and technical positions at Philips Electronics, Synergy Semiconductor, National Semiconductor and Fairchild Semiconductor. Mr. Vithayathil has a BSEE from the Institute of Technology in Madras, India, an MS in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis, and an MBA from Harvard University. Profile
TWST: Would you give our readers an overview of NewPort Communications?

Mr. Vithayathil: As an overview, NewPort Communications is a

semiconductor company focused on the optical communications