Leading Innovation

Board of Directors

 
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Oleg Khaykin

Chairman of the Board of Tagore
Oleg Khaykin is Chairman of the Board of Tagore. Oleg is also President and CEO of Viavi Solutions Milpitas CA and has also been appointed to the Viavi Board of Directors. Mr. Khaykin has more than 28 years of industry experience including senior advisor with Silver Lake Partners. Before that, Mr. Khaykin was President and CEO of International Rectifier from 2008 until its acquisition by Infineon AG in the January of 2015. He has also served as Chief Operating Officer of Amkor Technology and Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Conexant Systems. Earlier in his career he spent eight years with The Boston Consulting Group and prior to that, he was an engineer at Motorola. Mr. Khaykin holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering with honors from Carnegie-Mellon University.
 
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Andrew Kau

Partner of WRVI Capital
Andrew Kau is a Partner of WRVI Capital, a technology venture fund established in 2019 focused on accelerating the monetization and scaling of disruptive companies globally. He is also Managing Director, USA of Walden International where he focuses on emerging technologies. Andrew has over 21 years of venture capital experience. Andrew joined Walden International (WI) in 1994. Prior to WI, he was President of Chemical Technologies Ventures. He was also a management consultant at Strategic Planning Associates and Booz, Allen and Hamilton. Earlier in his career, Andrew was a research scientist at Systems Planning Corporation and a VLSI semiconductor engineer at IBM. Andrew holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Brown University and an MBA from the University of Virginia.
 
 
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Paul Hart

CEO
Paul Hart brings more than 25 years of experience in the RF semiconductor field to TagoreTech, specializing in technology creation, product development and market adoption of cutting-edge RF solutions. Prior to joining Tagore, Paul served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Radio Power business at NXP Semiconductor. Before that, Paul spent 15 years with Motorola and Freescale Semiconductor, in various technical and marketing roles including Senior Vice President of RF Power. Mr. Hart earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona and a Master of Science degree in microwaves and optoelectronics from University College London.
 
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Manish Shah

Co-founder and V.P Engineering
Manish Shah is a co-founder of Tagore Technology and Vice President of Engineering responsible for engineering and product development activities. Manish brings over 20 years’ experience in the semiconductor industry including design and development of RF-Mixed Signal IC, 2G, 3G, and 4G cellular transceivers’ architecture and system, cellular radio design. Manish has extensive experience in leading design teams at Fujitsu, Motorola and Freescale. Manish has pushed design boundaries in all his endeavors in numerous R&D and design projects. Manish has ten issued patents and many more pending. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from National Technological University and Bachelors Degree with Honors in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois at Chicago.