Chitra Hariharan comes with Deep Techno commercial experience in Global Semiconductor and Electronics Industry with career spanning across MNCs, Start-ups, Government organizations, Industry & Academia platforms and contributed significantly for growth of the ecosystem in India and globally. She has built 4 Silicon and product start-ups having Successful Exits – Intel Microelectronics, Open-Silicon, Concept2Silicon and SenZopt. She has been creating impactful and purpose driven collaborations across the entire Semicon ECO System – FAB, Design, IP, EDA, ATMP, EMS & PCB players through the strong network that she has built. Crown jewel of these great efforts turned out to be Open-Silicon winning “World’s Best Privately Held Semiconductor Company” award by GSA & her team winning the “Best Design Team” award. She’s an invited member for multiple technical forums and holds prestigious industry positions such as Secretary, VLSI Society of India (VSI) and is currently part of seed community of Matrix Partners, India – devC.