Pratap Reddy

Pratap Reddy is the CEO of Esencia Technologies and a member of the Board of Directors. A seasoned entrepreneur and a proven business leader for the past 18 years, Pratap has successfully built both Semiconductor chip & software companies. Prior to Esencia, Pratap was co-founder & CEO of 8KPC Inc, a storage hyper-converged appliance company. Pratap was co-founder & CEO of ArchPro Design Automation(acquired by Synopsys) and President/COO of Athena Semiconductors(acquired by Broadcom). Pratap was co-founder & COO of Sage Inc., a fabless chip company in the Video space which he helped take public (NASDAQ). Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Pratap held various executive & management positions at Synopsys & Data General. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from NIT Warangal and a Master’s degree from the University of Iowa, Iowa City.