中華資訊網路協會 Chinese Information &
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4675 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 101, Santa Clara, CA 95051
CINA April Monthly Seminar
Opportunities in RFID Technologies
Date/Time: Saturday, April 24, 2004, 10am
- 12pm
10:00 am - 10:30 am Registration & Networking
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Presentation, Q & A
Venue: Fenwick & West LLP, 801 California St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Speaker: Vikram ‘Vic’ Verma, President & CEO, Savi Technology, Inc.
Fee: Free for CINA Members; $10 for Non Members
RSVP: Email to: RSVP@cina.org with subject "4/24 Monthly"
Abstract:
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Speaker’s Biography:
Vikram Verma, President and Chief Executive Officer of Savi
Technology, Inc., has combined a distinguished and highly credentialed career
in both academia and business to transform Savi into a leading provider of
real-time solutions for the management and security of supply chain assets. Mr. Verma has earned honors from the White
House, National Defense Transportation Association, World Economic Forum as
well as prominent academic, business and technology institutions during a
career marked by increasingly responsible executive positions at Savi since he
joined the company in 1990.
Mr. Verma graduated witha B.S. degree from the
Florida Institute of Technology at the top of his class in 1987, an M.S.E.
degree from the University of Michigan in 1989, and an Advanced Engineer’s
degree from Stanford University in 1990, all in electrical engineering. In 1986, he was awarded the Eta Kappa Nu
Norman R. Carson Award as the Outstanding Junior Electrical Engineering student
in the United States (runner up). In
1987, he won the Tau Beta Pi Williams Fellowship as one of the top five
engineering students in the United States and the Eta Kappa Nu Alton Zerby
Award as the Outstanding Senior in Electrical Engineering (runner up). He also completed all the coursework and
passed the qualifying exam for his Ph.D. candidacy in electrical engineering
from Stanford University before leaving to join Savi. In addition, he attended
the executive management program for CEOs at Harvard Business School, the AEA
Executive Institute at Stanford University, and the Financial Management
Program at the University of California-Berkeley.
Mr. Verma has been granted eight patents and has
several other patents pending. In 1994, his DF/Tag product was recognized as
the "Most Innovative Technology Developed by a Small Business" by the
White House Office of Science and Technology. In 1999, the Florida Institute of
Technology awarded him its Distinguished Achievement Award; in 2001, he was
elected to the Institute’s Board of Trustees.
In 2002, the World Economic Forum named Mr. Verma one of 40 “Technology
Pioneers for 2003.”
Prior to his current position, Mr. Verma was Vice President of Engineering, where he helped design and develop the company’s product offerings, and Chief Operating Officer, where he helped negotiate the acquisition of Savi by Texas Instruments in 1995. In 1997, the unit was sold to Raytheon. In May 1999, Mr. Verma led the management buyout of Savi from Raytheon. Since 1999, Mr. Verma has enabled Savi to raise about $93 million in venture capital financing, significantly expand its public and commercial customer base worldwide, and open offices in Sunnyvale, CA, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Heidelberg, Germany, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Malaysia. Technologic Partners named Savi two years in a row as an “Investors’ Choice award recipient; Upside Magazine listed Savi in its “Hot 100” private companies list for 2001; Red Herring included Savi as one of 50 privately held companies “most likely to change the world.” In April 2001, the company acquired AceFusion Pte. Ltd. and created Savi Technology Asia to extend its presence in Asia Pacific.