Prith Banerjee's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Chief Technology Officer @ ANSYS, Inc. As CTO, I lead the evolution of ANSYS' technology and will champion the company's next phase of innovation and growth. If you've ever seen a rocket launch, flown on an airplane, driven a car, used a computer, touched a mobile device, crossed a bridge or put on wearable technology, chances are you've used a product where ANSYS software played a critical role in its creation. ANSYS is the global leader in engineering simulation. Through our strategy of Pervasive Engineering Simulation, we help the world's most innovative companies deliver radically better products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, we help them solve the most complex design challenges and create products limited only by imagination. Founded in 1970, ANSYS is headquartered south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Visit www.ansys.com for more information. Greater Pittsburgh AreaBoard Of Directors @ Cubic Corporation I am an Independent Director of Cubic Corporation. Cubic is a market-leading, technology provider of integrated solutions that increase situational understanding for transportation, defense, C4ISR and training customers worldwide to decrease urban congestion and improve the militaries’ effectiveness and operational readiness. Greater San Diego AreaBoard Of Directors @ Cray Inc. I was an Independent Director of Cray Inc., a Global supercomputing leader. Cray Inc. (Nasdaq: CRAY) provides innovative systems and solutions enabling scientists and engineers in industry, academia, and government to meet existing and future simulation and analytics challenges. Cray was acquired by HPE in September 2019, so I stepped off the Board. From May 2013 to September 2019 (6 years 5 months) Greater Seattle AreaChief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President @ ABB In my role as Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of ABB, I head up 8000 scientists and engineers in ABB Research Centers around the world (China, India, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and USA) and two Global Labs, Global Labs Power and Global Labs Automation. From April 2012 to May 2013 (1 year 2 months) Zurich, SwitzerlandSenior Vice President of Research and Director, HP Labs @ Hewlett-Packard In these roles, I helped to chart technical strategies for the company, and I headed HP Labs, which has seven locations worldwide. I was responsible for creating a very comprehensive Strategic Plan for reorganizing and redirecting HP Labs to have the researchers to work on high impact larger collaborative projects, improved project life-cycle management, and more direct accountability, a greater emphasis on longer term research, and a focus on technology transfer. We re-organized HP Labs into 7 Labs each with about 50-80 researchers focused on a particular research theme. We also put in place programs for successful technology transfer, and Open Innovation with university researchers, commercial partners, and external funding agencies. I managed a group of 500 researchers in 7 labs in 7 worldwide locations. From August 2007 to April 2012 (4 years 9 months) Founder and Chief Scientist @ BINACHIP BINACHIP developed system level electronic design automation tools and services. My role was to create the business plan and strategic technical directions for the products and services for the company. From 2006 to 2011 (5 years) Chicago, IllinoisWalter Murphy Professor and Chairman, Electrical and Computer Engineering @ Northwestern University Responsible for a department with 31 faculty, 120 graduate students, 250 undergraduate students. During these years, I had led the development of some innovative revisions of the electrical engineering and computer engineering undergraduate curricula at Northwestern. Was responsible for building a Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing with 12 faculty, being a principal investigator of five large research projects with more than $8 million in funding from DARPA, NSF, NASA, DOE, and others. In addition, I completed the supervision of 10 Ph.D. and 15 M.S. theses. From September 1996 to July 2004 (7 years 11 months) Founder, President and CEO @ AccelChip Responsible for founding the company, raising $2.3 million in Venture Capital funding, hiring a top management team, growing the company to about 25 employees, developing the first product AccelFPGA, and generating more than $800,000 in revenue. AccelChip was purchased by Xilinx in Jan. 2006. From July 2000 to July 2002 (2 years 1 month) Senior Client Partner @ Korn Ferry In this role I was responsible for the IOT and Digital Transformation advisory services within the Global Industrial Practice (including automotive, aerospace, defense, energy, oil and gas, utilities, manufacturing, automation, and related). Korn Ferry is the preeminent global people and organizational advisory firm. We help leaders, organizations, and societies succeed by releasing the full power and potential of people. Our nearly 7,000 colleagues deliver services through our Executive Search, Hay Group and Futurestep divisions. Visit kornferry.com for more information. From June 2017 to September 2018 (1 year 4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaExecutive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer @ Schneider Electric I was Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and member of the Executive Committee of Schneider Electric, reporting to the Chairman and CEO. In this role I am responsible for driving innovation and technology differentiation, and coordinating the R&D activities of the company across its five businesses with 8,000 R&D personnel, and a 1.3 billion Euro R&D investment. From September 2015 to June 2017 (1 year 10 months) Pleasanton, CAManaging Director of Global Technology R&D @ Accenture In his role, I oversaw the Accenture Technology Labs, the global technology R&D organization within Accenture which explored new and emerging technologieshttp://www.accenture.com/us-en/technology/technology-labs/Pages/index.aspxIn addition, I directed Accenture’s annual Technology Vision research, which looked at the future of enterprise IT and made recommendations for how companies can take advantage of technology to improve their competitiveness, operations and business results.http://www.accenture.com/Microsites/it-technology-trends-2014/Pages/home.aspx. From June 2013 to August 2015 (2 years 3 months) San Jose, CAProfessor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of Computational Science and Engineering @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Supervised more than 25 Ph.D. and 25 M.S. students, and had ten large research projects from NSF, DARPA, ONR, SRC, and others. I was the founding Director of the CSE program at Illinois during 1994-96. During those two years, I was successful in establishing the CSE academic program in ten departments, creating/identifying more than 40 CSE courses, sponsoring 8 research assistantships for CSE research activities, writing research proposals to obtain advanced computing equipment for a CSE laboratory, starting a CSE seminar, and writing proposals to acquire grants for research in CSE. From January 1985 to August 1996 (11 years 8 months) Dean of College of Engineering @ University of Illinois at Chicago In this role, I was responsible for six academic departments and 8 research centers, 115 faculty, 1625 undergraduates, and 850 graduate students, and $21 million in annual research funding. From August 2004 to July 2007 (3 years) Board Of Directors @ Software Motor Company I am an Independent Director of Software Motor Company (SMC). The Silicon Valley based Software Motor Company is setting a new standard of efficiency, reliability, and intelligence with the SMC Smart Motor System. SMC combines modern computing and software control with the proven reliability of switched reluctance motor technology to achieve an unprecedented optimal efficiency. Mountain View, CA