Suhas Patil

Suhas Patil is founder and Chairman Emeritus of Cirrus Logic Inc., a leading semiconductor company and first company to be based on fabless semiconductor business model. At present he is devoting time ad CEO to build Cradle Technology, a HiTech networked video surveillance company serving India, US and rest of the world. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Suhas spent ten years in the academic field. Suhas was appointed Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, he also served as Assistant Director of Project MAC (Multi-Access Computer), the largest computer science laboratory in the US, where the timesharing computer system was developed. At MIT, he worked in the area of Computer Architecture and related topics. In 1992, Suhas together with other successful entrepreneurs and businessmen of Indian origin in the Silicon Valley founded a non-profit organization called TiE, Suhas was elected its first president and under his leadership TiE became an effective and respected organization nurturing and mentoring entrepreneurs and young companies. Suhas received his Doctor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1970. In 1995, his alma mater, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, conferred an Honorary Doctor of Science degree on him for his work in science and industry. Suhas is recipient of many awards of recognition from community organizations for his contributions to the community.