Alpesh Chokshi MS, MBA

Alpesh is passionate about bringing Artificial Intelligence(AI) products to the market with the demonstrated history of excelling technical and management roles in high-tech industry. He is dynamic Technology and Business Leader with over 22 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, including pivotal roles at Intel, Micron, Qualcomm, SGH, and startup. Specialized in leading the development and marketing of cutting-edge technology solutions, including compute CPU, GPU, FPGA, DPU, AI Accelerators (Micron DLA, Intel NPU, Nervana, Habana), and while building large-scale AI/HPC infrastructures. As a Technical Product Manager and Marketer, effectively addressing customer needs through innovative hardware, software, and platform solutions. Demonstrates a broad skill set in business incubation, go-to-market strategies, product vision/strategy formulation, business/market development, and ecosystem/partner development. An adept leader known for guiding diverse teams across multiple disciplines, cultures, and geographies to success. Has a proven track record of conceiving, launching, and commercializing high-value solutions tailored for AI, HPC, Datacenter/Cloud, IoT, and PC sectors. An entrepreneurial spirit coupled with a “Make It Happen” attitude, while successfully navigating in resource-constrained environments to achieve professional and personal milestones.   I have a strong educational background with MS in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University and MBA focused in Entrepreneurship & Marketing from Babson College (#1 for Entrepreneurship MBA Program in the US for 27th consecutive time)    CORE COMPETENCIES Business Skills: Entrepreneur Leadership | New Business Incubation | Business/Market Development | Strategy Formulation, Planning & Execution | Business & Product Strategy | Market Research & Competitive intelligence | Ecosystem and Partner Strategy – OEM, CSP, ISV, SI, Aggregator/Disti | Customer Mgmt & Relationships | Product Mgmt | Product Marketing/GTM | Program Lifecycle Management | Agile Methodologies - SCRUM, Rally| Business/Data Analytics | Financial Analysis | Communication | Negotiation | Influence Technical Skills: Intel x86 based xPU - CPU, GPU | AI/ML Accelerators/ASICs - Micron DLA, Intel Movidius, Gaudi, Nervana | AI/ML SW - OpenVINO, MDLA SDK (Familiarity with - TensorRT, CUDA, Qcom AIMET, ONNX) | AI/ML Framework - TensorFlow, PyTorch | System Arch. | Silicon Design/Validation | Cloud – Azure, AWS, GCP | Tableau, SQL | Programming Languages: Python, Verilog, System Verilog, VHDL