Ravikrishna Cherukuri, Director

Mr. Cherukuri is an investor and a board member in Ventuno Technologies. He is currently the Vice President of Engineering at MIPS Technologies where he is responsible for all of the hardware and software engineering efforts. Previously, Mr. Cherukuri was Co-founder and Vice President of Engineering of Sonoa Systems, an infrastructure provider of analytics, management and governance solutions for cloud services and APIs. Prior to Sonoa, Mr. Cherukuri was on the founding team and managed ASIC and hardware development for Siara Systems, a KPCB funded company acquired by Redback Networks in 2000. Previously, Mr. Cherukuri spent eight years at Nexgen Microsystem/AMD, where he was a key designer of AMD’s K6 microprocessor and also led the K7 chipset (Irongate) development effort. Before that, Mr. Cherukuri was an engineer with HCL Infosystems, working on architecture and implementation of the company’s flagship Magnum multiprocessor platform.
Mr. Cherukuri holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from IIT Roorkee and a TRIUM Global EMBA jointly offered by NYU Stern, London School of Economics and HEC, Paris. He holds 19 approved U.S. patents in the fields of computer architecture and networking.