Nitin Parekh
Nitin is currently the Director of Business Development at PARC, the recognized leader in research-based innovation including the graphical user interface, laser printing, clientserver architectures, the Ethernet etc.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | Chemical Engineering, Engineering |
| Groups: | Imagine H2O - Please Register at link below, Imagine H2O 2011, [INACTIVE] Imagine H2O |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Stanford University, University of California System - Los Angeles, University of Wisconsin System - Madison |
FULL BIO
Nitin is a seasoned executive with both Fortune 500 and high growth entrepreneurial
companies. His twenty five years of experience spans the cleantech, semiconductor,
and telecommunications industries. He has created and run business units within large
corporations, driven business development at both global corporations and start-up
companies, led the acquisition of public and private multi-million-dollar enterprises,
along with raising Venture Capital funding and doing due diligence prior to venture
capital investing. In addition, his background in executive management, business
development, marketing, product management, product development, and operations
has been multinational, with organizations in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | PARC |
| Position: | Director of Business Development |
| Description: | Nitin is currently the Director of Business Development at PARC, the recognized leader in
research-based innovation including the graphical user interface, laser printing, clientserver architectures, the Ethernet etc. Nitin is responsible for identifying, structuring and investing in business opportunities that capitalize on PARC technology and marketplace needs in renewable energy, clean water, adaptive energy, solid state lighting, biomedical devices, optoelectronics and optical systems. Nitin was instrumental in launching the startup@parc program through which PARC has incubated two companies already with two more in the pipeline for 2008. |
| Employer: | NanoNexus |
| Position: | Vice President of Business Development, Product Management & Marketing |
| Description: | As an entrepreneur, Nitin was the Vice President of Business Development, Product
Management & Marketing at NanoNexus, a venture-funded company (>$50M raised) founded to provide advanced contactor products for the electronics industry. |
| Employer: | Novellus Systems |
| Position: | General Manager |
| Description: | At Novellus Systems (~ $1.6B systems company), Nitin as General Manager, launched
the Optical Products Business Unit. Prior to this he led the Strategic Marketing and Business Development organization reporting to the Chairman & CEO, where among other responsibilities he executed on public ($350M) and private mergers & acquisitions. |
| Employer: | Texas Instruments |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Description: | At Texas Instruments, Nitin managed a globally dispersed (USA, Germany, Japan) crossfunctional team to develop and manufacture mixed-signal semiconductor technology for products used in high capacity storage systems, wireless communication components
and PC processor interfaces, with $400M revenues forecasted from this platform. |
| Employer: | Philips Research & Development center in The Netherlands, Xerox PARC in California, USA |
| Position: | Research and development leadership positions |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of California System - Los Angeles |
| Degree: | MBA |
| University: | Stanford University |
| Degree: | Engineering, MSc |
| University: | University of Wisconsin System - Madison |
| Degree: | Chemical Engineering, BSc |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | Nitin has chaired numerous international industry committees and symposiums, and
authored more than 20 publications and patents. Today, Nitin is the Chairman of the IEEE SFBA Nanotechnology council, and serves on the board of the non-profit Solutions Benefiting Life, which designs micro-enterprises and filters for safe drinking water in developing countries. |
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Water for India
Water4India started as a service learning collaboration between design and engineering students at the University of Hartford. We now have expanded into a project inviting participation from outside university boundaries.
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Cascade Clean Energy, Inc.
A wastewater treatment system that simultaneously cleans water and generates renewable energy
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