| April 24, 2007 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Who: Narpat Bhandari, Founder of Aspen Semiconductor
Where: Minnis Professional Building, Milpitas, CA
When: Tuesday, April 24, 7 PM to 8:30 PM
How: Book your seat now
- Buy admission tickets online at sulekha
- RANA members tickets register at www.rana.org
How much:
- FREE for RANA members
- $10 online for general public
Schedule:
- Networking: 7:00 to 7:15 pm
- Talk: 7:15 to 8:30 pm
Ask: events@rana.org, 408-761-7146, www.rana.org
There are a number of Rajasthanis in the Bay area that have been successful in the venture world and have promoted numerous others. At RANA, we want to highlight the belief systems — religious mores, cultural values, moral and ethical principles — that underlie the Rajasthani psyche and enable them to succeed in the venture world.
Last month’s Entrepreneur Forum was a phenomenal success, if the feedback of participants, the enthusiasm of the presenter, or the number of new RANA members is a measure of success. Our attendees said that the most beneficial part of RANA’s Entrepreneur Forum is the face time with presenters and the intimate setting of the forum enables rich interactions with all attendees.
This month we have the pleasure of hosting Narpat Bhandari, a highly successful entrepreneur and individual venture capitalist of Silicon Valley. If it is not an exaggeration to say, Narpat Bhandari is the fountainhead of Indian entrepreneurship in the Bay Area.
The Entrepreneur Forum will fire your imagination, bring you face to face with future investors and venture partners, and sharpen your acumen on running ventures. Speakers engage in a two-way conversation with the audience in an informal setting. The forum meets every 4th Tuesday of the month.
Entrepreneur profile
Bhandari, a resident of the US since 1961 was among the group of Indians stuck under a glass ceiling during the heydays of 1980. In 1987 he was chief engineer at Fairchild Semiconductors’ new product division leading a team to the original BiCMOS techology. He left Fairchild to form Aspen in what was one of the earliest Indian American hi-tech ventures. Aspen later merged with Cypress Semiconductors.
Bhandari is a trustee of the University of California Santa Cruz Foundation and the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, a San Francisco Bay Area organization. He is the co-founder and a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE) of Santa Clara. He held a global chair for the group from its inception until 1996. He received the entrepreneur of the Year award in 1992 from the National federation of Indian Associations. He and his wife Chandra Bhandari have endowed a permanent chair in Indian studies at UC Santa Cruz.
Bhandari has taught a range of courses on electronics at numerous institutions, including UC Extension, University of Southern California, Purdue University and Northeastern university in Boston. He received his B.S.E.E. in telecommunications from the Birla Institute of Technology in Pilani, India in 1961. He received his M.S.E.E. with the highest honors from Purdue University in 1963. He was engaged in additional graduate work in Business Management at UC Los Angeles and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
