Pashupathy Shankar Gopalan
Director
Pashupathy Shankar Gopalan was the President & CEO, of SunEdison (Asia-Pacific) who successfully built SunEdison’s business in those regions. Prior to joining SunEdison, Pashupathy was with Cypress Semiconductor as Vice President for strategic marketing & corporate business development. In this capacity, he was responsible for various initiatives such as global market strategy, new business creation, Cypress venture fund, mergers & acquisitions, corporate strategy and platform marketing of Cypress’s products.
Pashupathy had also spent over 10 years at Cypress in various operating roles. He was the Business Unit Director for the $250 million mobile handset memory business in 2001-2003. He also led a team that developed Cypress’s 0.25-micron generation platform in 1997 – 1999. Prior to that, he had held several engineering positions in process engineering, fab manufacturing, and technology development. He joined Cypress in 2005 as a Managing Director for Cypress’s Automotive and Consumer Imaging Business Units that included running the Cambridge, MA based SMaL Camera Technologies.
He was the Senior Vice President for sales, marketing & business development at Bloom Energy, a pioneering fuel cell energy company listed in NASDAQ.
Pashupathy holds a B. Tech in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT-BHU, M.S in Materials Science & Engineering from Arizona State University, and an MBA from Stanford University.