Govind Kizhepat

Who is Govind Kizhepat?

A semiconductor industry veteran, Govind founded NetXen, while

serving as an entrepreneur in residence (EIR) at the venture capital

firm, Benchmark Capital. Prior to joining Benchmark, Govind was

Executive Vice President of Globespan (CNXT), a leading worldwide

provider of integrated circuits (chip sets), software, and system

designs for broadband solutions. At Globespan, Govind headed the Media

Gateway Division where he was responsible for video and audio codecs as

well as voice over packet products. In 1996, Govind founded

iCompression, and served as the company's founding CEO and Chairman.

Govind grew iCompression to be the industry leader in MPEG encoders and

voice over packet codecs before arranging the sale of the company to

Globespan in a stock deal valued at more than $400 million.

Before founding iCompression, Govind held various technical

leadership and management positions at S3, and Sun Microsystems where

he played key roles in the development of SuperSPARC and UltraSPARC

processors. Govind holds a BSEE from Delhi University, and an MSEE from

Wayne State University.