Abhijit Y Talwalkar

Abhi Talwalkar is president and chief executive officer of LSI. In May 2005, he was appointed to this position, succeeding Wilfred J. Corrigan, LSI's founder. He is a member of LSI's Board of Directors. Talwalkar joined the company from Intel Corporation, where he served as vice president and co-general manager of the Digital Enterprise Group, comprised of Intel's Business Client, Server, Storage and Communications businesses. Previously, he served as vice president and general manager for Intel's Enterprise Platform Group. In this position, he focused on developing, marketing and supporting Intel's business strategies for enterprise computing. Prior to joining Intel in 1993 as a Server Development Engineering and Program manager, Talwalkar held senior engineering and marketing management positions at Sequent Computer Systems (now part of IBM), Bipolar Integrated Technology Incorporated and Lattice Semiconductor Inc. Talwalkar has more than 20 years of management and engineering experience in the semiconductor industry, including positions in research, product development and marketing. Talwalkar received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University.