Technology >> CEO Interviews >> July 27, 2000
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