Technology >> CEO Interviews >> June 9, 2003

Kanwar Chadha – Sirf Technology Inc

Kanwar Chadha is Founder and Vice President of Business Development of SiRF Technology, Inc. He has more than 18 years of experience in marketing management. Prior to founding SiRF, he served as Director of Strategic Marketing at S3, Inc., and started the multimedia group there. As general manager of the multimedia group, Mr. Chadha led the development of innovative audio and video processing technologies. Before joining S3, he was the Chairman and a co-founder of AQuesT, Inc., a developer of multimedia and 3D graphics acceleration products. From 1983 to 1989, he held various product marketing positions at Intel. As the product line manager for the i860 RISC processor and floating-point co-processors, he grew the co-processor business to more than $100 million. He received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, a Master's degree in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia. Profile
TWST: Could we begin with a brief historical sketch of SiRF

Technology and an overview of things as they are now?

Mr. Chadha: We started the company in 1995, and our focus was to

bring the