Silicon Valley Indian Professionals Association (SIPA) invites you to our monthly event on February 05, 2005.

The convergence between the worlds of Mobile and the Internet are driving the emergence of 3G and WLAN access technologies. This presents not only great opportunities for the future, but also great challenges in understanding the relative position of different technologies in this future. SIPA brings you an event with Praveen Singh, Country Manager, India for ATHEROS COMMUNICATIONS. Lets hear from him what he thinks about:

- State of the WLAN Industry

- Future of the Wireless Industry

- Affect on Consumer ElectronicsDoing

- Business in Asia

Praveen is the country manager of Atheros Communications, a leading developer of Wireless LAN chipsets has been an integral part in making Atheros a successful public company. Praveen has been involved with building the Atheros Asian support team and has focused on sales and business development activities in Japan and Korea. In addition, Praveen is in charge of the emerging Indian business opportunities for Atheros and serves as the Country Manager for India focusing on emerging sales and business development opportunities.

Prior to Atheros, Praveen was at the wireless group at Intel, which came about via an aquisition of Level One Communications, where he was at prior to Intel. At Intel, Praveen was focused on supporting Japanese OEMs develop cordless phone products based on Intel/Level One technology. Prior to Intel, Praveen served as an RF design engineer at Watkins-Johnson developing base station solutions for the PCS market. Praveen received his BSEE from California State Polytechnic University and MSEE from Stanford University, where he focused on wireless communication systems. Praveen has a strong interest in using wireless technology to promote development in emerging 3rd world countries.