MosChip Technologies Limited announced that Dr. Naveed Ahmed Sherwani has been appointed as Additional Non Independent & Non Executive Director of the Company. The appointment was approved by the Board of Directors on 17th June, 2023, the brief profile of Mr. Naveed is as follows; Dr. Sherwani has decades of experience in entrepreneurship, technical engineering and general management. Dr. Sherwani currently serves as Chairman, President and CEO of RapidSilicon.

In addition to serving on multiple boards and advisor to several companies. Prior to this role, he served as chairman, president and CEO of SiFive. He also serves as chairman of several companies, including StarFive and LeapFive.

In addition, he served as chair, RISC-V strategic alliances at RISC-V international. Dr. Sherwani started his first company, when he was only 18 years old. He has founded and co-founded multiple companies.

Prior to joining SiFive, he founded PeerNova. Dr. Sherwani served as Chairman, President and CEO of PeerNova. Prior to PeerNova, Dr. Sherwani co-founded Open-Silicon.

Prior to OpenSilicon, as the founder and General Manager of Intel Microelectronics Services, he pioneered Open methodology for ASICs. He also founded Brite Semi. He has served on the boards of various companies, including Touchstone Semiconductor, and Integration associates (sold to Silicon Labs).

Dr. Sherwani worked at Intel for nearly a decade, where he co-architected the Intel microprocessor design methodology and design environment used in several microprocessors and received the prestigious Intel achievement Award in 1997. Dr. Sherwani is a noted author having authored several books and over 100 articles on various aspects of VLSI Physical Design Automation and ASICs. Dr. Sherwani served as a Professor at Western Michigan University, where his research focused on ASICs, EDA, Combinatorics, graph algorithms and parallel computing.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.