Krish Panu
Chairman, CEO and President

Krish Panu is the @Road President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. Under his leadership @Road has raised over $225 million and went public on September 28, 2000. @Road is a global leader in Mobile Resource Management. In January, 2005, @Road was ranked number one on the Forbes Midas List for 2004, a ranking of the 25 fastest growing publicly traded technology companies in North America. In 2004 Frost & Sullivan awarded @Road the “Mobile Communications Product of the Year.” In 2003 @Road was ranked “Number One Fastest Growing Silicon Valley Technology Company by the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 Program. In both 2001 and 2002, @Road was named by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal as one of Silicon Valley’s 50 fastest-growing public companies.

Mr. Panu’s career has spanned more than 20 years in technology companies. Prior to @Road, he served as Vice President and General Manager of the Logic Products division of Atmel Corporation, a semiconductor manufacturer. He was responsible for managing engineering, manufacturing, software development and marketing groups as well as the corporate quality and reliability organization. During his seven-year tenure Atmel's revenue grew from approximately $100M to over $1.1 billion, and the wireless business increased to 42% of the company's business. Mr. Panu was also a key member of the management team which raised over $600M in both stock and bond offerings. Previous to Atmel, Mr. Panu held executive sales and marketing roles at Catalyst Semiconductor, Xicor and Datapoint Corporation, and, in addition, while at Atmel, Xicor and others he has initiated global operations centers around the world.

Mr. Panu is an active angel investor in building technology businesses. As a result of his long, successful experience, Mr. Panu has a broad and deep network of relationships in both the venture capital and entrepreneur communities.

Mr. Panu holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, an M.S. in computer engineering as well as an M.B.A. from Wayne State University in Michigan.