Shankar Narayanan

Shankar Narayanan is an Indian entrepreneur based in the United States of America and currently founder CEO of Spime Inc. In the year 1998, Narayanan co-founded Nexus Inc, a networking software company based out of Fremont, California. In the year 2000, he co-founded Emuzed Inc, a mobile multimedia company. Following its acquisition by Flextronics in 2005, he became the Vice President and General Manager of Flextronics Mobile Software Division. He left Flextronics to start Spime Inc. He was the charter secretary of MCRT 99 of Round Table India, he was an active member and held various responsible roles at MCRT 99 of Round Table India. In 2005, honoring Shankar as a successful Indian entrepreneur in the USA, Jaya TV, a leading television channel in South India, interviewed Shankar during their prime time in the morning as one of their chief guests. In 2008, he was interviewed by Kalaignar TV, a popular South Indian television channel. He has received numerous accolades, the most notable of which are the Global Youth Leadership Award (2010) and the Hind Rattan Award (2011), he received these awards at New Delhi from the Cabinet ministers of Government of India.

Education

Shankar attended elementary school in Usilampatti, Tamil Nadu, and St. Mary’s High School in Madurai, India. Shankar was prominent in the theater and drama department in all his schools, and took part in numerous plays and debates. He also was in the school’s Track, Cricket, and Badminton teams. In 1982 Shankar enrolled in Palani Andawar Polytechnic in Palani and after a year transferred to Tamil Nadu Polytechic in Madurai, there he graduated with a Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Later he continued his higher studies at Thiagarajar College of Engineering in Madurai and completed his Bachelors course in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, there after he completed Masters in Administration at Madurai Kamaraj Universityfollowed with Masters in Business Administration from Collins University in the United States of America.

Career

In 1985 he took a job as technical staff in British Physical Laboratories, then switched to a small start up, Micro Advance where he gained expertise in both hardware and software of computers. After a few years there, he then joined Aurelec Computers, a Pondicherry based computer design company based in Pondicherry. Following that in 1991, Shankar invested and joined in Nexus Computers as a founding member. At Nexus he held various positions as a leader in Management, Sales, Marketing and Support and became VP and General manager, he left Nexus Computers in 1998 and co-founded Nexus Inc., a networking software company based at Silicon Valley in the United States of America. Following M&A of Nexus Inc in 2000, Shankar co-founded Emuzed inc, a multimedia software company with a focus on phones and other mobile devices. Emuzed’s technology was then licensed to numerous cell phone manufacturers including Nokia, Samsung, Siemens and many others. In early 2005, Flextronics, the world's largest electronic contract manufacturing company acquired Emuzed. Following that acquisition Shankar remained on the Flextronics Mobile and Handset division as the Vice President and General Manager until June 2006.

Personal Life

Shankar was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu to Mrs. Sowthamini a house wife and Mr. Narayanan, a police officer, Shankar was the youngest of four. Shankar married Valsala in 1992 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The couple have two sons Vaishaal Shankar (born 1993) and Vishan Shankar (born 2004). Shankar and his family currently live in Fremont, CA.

External links

• Jaya TV Interview
• Kalaignar TV
• Wireless Innovation 2008 Conference
• GPS Business News Interview
• Highbeam Research Interview
• The Hindu
• Blogspot
• The Economic Times
• The Economic Times
• The Economic Times