Somshubhro Pal Choudhury

Somshubhro (Som) Pal Choudhury is a Co-Founder and Partner at BIF Ventures (Bharat Innovation Fund). Previously, Som was the Managing Director of Analog Devices India, wholly owned subsidiary of $12B+ global semiconductor company headquartered in Boston, and was based for almost 2 decades in Silicon Valley in various roles: Global Product Management & Marketing Director at NETGEAR, first employee of an early M2M/IoT startup in the energy management/Smart grid space and held several management and engineering roles at Cadence Design Systems. Som is currently on the board of US India Science and Technology Fund (USISTEF), a grant initiative by both Governments to foster cross-border joint collaborative research and Entrepreneurship. He is on the board of multiple deeptech startups, and in semiconductor startup selection committee of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). He was previously a board member of Industry Body, IESA (India Electronics & Semiconductor Association).