Technology >> CEO Interviews >> July 29, 1999
Prakash Agarwal, as a co-founder, has been President, Chief Executive
Officer, and a Director of NeoMagic since its inception in 1993. Mr.
Agarwal has over 20 years of engineering, marketing and general
management experience in the semiconductor industry including having
served as Vice President and General Manager of Cirrus Logic's Portable
Products Division. Mr. Agarwal holds Bachelor of Science and Masters of
Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Illinois. Under his leadership, NeoMagic went public in March 1997,
became one of the fastest growing semiconductor companies, and now leads
the industry in providing multimedia accelerators to notebook PC makers
with over 50% market share. NeoMagic sells to every major notebook PC
manufacturer including: Compaq, Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM,
Mitsubishi, NEC, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba. In June 1998, Mr. Agarwal was
awarded the 1998 Ernst & Young 'Entrepreneur of the Year Award' for
excellence and extraordinary success in innovation, financial
performance, and personal commitment to his business and his community.
He is married and has two daughters. Profile
Corporation?
Mr. Agarwal: NeoMagic is a six-year-old company. We founded the company
in the summer of 1993. We went public in
