MANAGEMENT
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Meet Our Management Team
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Farhat Jahangir
Founder & CEO
Founder and CEO of GS Microelectronics (GSME) – Farhat is a visionary leader with over 28 years of pioneering expertise in the semiconductor industry. In 2022, he founded GSME, a cutting-edge company specializing in integrated circuit (IC) design and advanced manufacturing solutions, driving innovation in next-generation semiconductor technologies. Under his guidance, GSME is poised to redefine the future of IC design and manufacturing, leveraging Farhat’s unparalleled experience to deliver breakthrough solutions in the global semiconductor landscape.
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Landmark Achievements:
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Played a pivotal role at Quantenna Communications, where his leadership contributed to the company’s successful IPO in 2016 and its eventual $1.1 billion acquisition by ON Semiconductor (Onsemi) in 2019.
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Served as General Manager and VP of Manufacturing at Onsemi, overseeing large-scale operations and a $2B revenue stream at the state-of-the-art 300mm EFK fabrication facility (formerly GF/IBM).
Education:
A highly respected industry expert, Farhat holds an MSEE from the University of Arkansas and was honored with induction into the prestigious Arkansas Academy of Electrical Engineering in 2020 as a testament to his profound impact on semiconductor innovation and leadership.
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Over 25 years of experience in SW development and optimization for semiconductor manufacturing, planning to improve productivity and efficiency by using BI and ML based manufacturing database. Ravi was instrumental in optimizing business operations, production planning over distributed manufacturing locations. Previously Ravi headed the manufacturing business unit at Quantenna Communications and achieved 99% on time delivery and consistent QoQ cost reductions.
Ravi Kanth
Chief Operating Officer
Vivek Prasad brings to GSME more than 30 years of microelectronics engineering and broader industry experience, leading product strategy, customer engagement, and business development. His technical expertise spans pre-silicon validation, pre-silicon software readiness, chip architecture, AI-enhanced workflows, emulation, and scalable platforms.
Most recently, Prasad served as Vice President & General Manager at Intel, where he was responsible for defining and implementing system-level pre-silicon validation strategy for majority of Intel products. Prasad also managed the test board, test chips, and associated lab infrastructure for streamlined prototyping of new IPs and sub-systems.
Vivek Prasad
Chief Strategy and Product Officer
Over 30 years experience in the semiconductor industry from tape out to release product to mass production. Extensive experience in leading engineering teams with all aspects of NPI, Characterization, Test Programs, Manufacturing engineering & production sustaining. In his last position at Quantenna (later acquired by Onsemi) he led all NPI activities with all Wi-Fi based IoT client solution and access point such as RF, PMIC and base-band SoC devices for over 13 years. Hoang also worked with 3rd party foundries in managing process controls to ensure higher yields. Hoang holds a BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley.
Hoang Nguyen
VP of Manufacturing Engineering
Over 20 years of engineering and executive leadership experience, specializing in product development across semiconductors, software, networking, and AI. As SVP of Product & Program Management at RS, she led the cross-functional team to develop the FPGA/SoC devices. At Onsemi, she contributed to the Wi-Fi connectivity division, managing the Wi-Fi client chip program for IoT, automotive, and industrial markets, along with RF/Baseband chipset qualification and the successful deployment of Quantenna’s 10Gbps 802.11ac complex access point chipset. Zarin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.
Zarin Said
VP of Product Management and Customer Success
Over 30 years of experience in RF and 25+ years in managing highly skilled teams, including RF Application Engs and RFIC Design Engs. He has been involved in every stage of the IC product lifecycle and has held key roles at major companies and startups, including co‑founding Xceive and leading engineering efforts at Quantenna and Tarana Wireless. His work spans groundbreaking TV tuners, advanced MIMO Wi‑Fi access point chips, and cutting‑edge 5G/6G RFICs. He has built world‑class design teams and contributing to numerous patents, Didier holds an MSEE from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne.
Didier Margairaz
VP of RF & Analog
Over 20 years of experience in Physical Design, DFT, Power Integrity, RTL Verification, Post-Silicon (MP, Failure Analysis). Kevin was instrumental in running SOC & CPU Implementation Group at Mediatek Singapore for 12.5 years. He has built new RD teams from scratch, hiring talents from India, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore and Taiwan. Kevin has experience in overseeing site strategy and RD operations involving 300 staff in HCMC, spanning from RTL Design to Physical Design. Kevin holds a BSc/MSc for Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore.
Kevin Koh
VP of Engineering & GM - Vietnam
Mike Andrews has 30 years of semiconductor industry experience. Mike was the first employee in IMEC's North America custom silicon business unit and served as its Business Development Manager for five years. During this time Mike was instrumental in expanding from the first customer to over $30M in sales annually. Mike has previously worked for Teradyne, eSilicon, AMI Semiconductor and National Semiconductor in sales, marketing, and project management positions. Mike obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Santa Clara University.
