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Sailesh Chittipeddi
Venture Partner
Sailesh Chittipeddi is a Venture Partner at Novo Tellus Capital Partners. He currently serves on the boards of Tessolve (India) and Lantronix (NASDAQ; LTRX) , continuing a distinguished career combining deep technology expertise, senior executive leadership, and decades of corporate M&A experience.
Most recently, Sailesh was Executive Vice President of Global Operations at Renesas Electronics, and President of Renesas Electronics America. In this role he led global manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, and all related development functions. Prior to that, he led the Industrial, IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit at Renesas as EVP and GM where he nearly doubled the division’s revenue to over $7 billion. His portfolio included microcontrollers, connectivity, power, and analog/mixed-signal solutions.
Before joining Renesas in 2019, Sailesh was the EVP of Global Operations and CTO of IDT. He was formerly CEO of Conexant Systems, and previously held leadership roles with Agere Systems, Lucent Technologies, AT&T Microelectronics and AT&T Bell Labs. Sailesh has over two decades of corporate M&A experience. He previously led the transition of Conexant Systems from a public corporation to private equity ownership and through a successful restructuring.
Sailesh has served as board member at a range of global public and private companies, including Sequans Communications (NYSE: SQNS), Avalanche Technologies (India), Blu Wireless (UK), and Peraso (Canada). Sailesh also serves an advisor to several start-ups including most recently: EdgeCortix (Japan), Point2Technology (San Jose), SensTek Diagnostics (Oakland) and OBELabs (Korea).
Sailesh holds a Ph.D. in Physics from The Ohio State University and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He holds 83 U.S. patents in semiconductor technologies and has published over 40 technical papers.