Daikoku Innovations Management Team

Sudarshan NS

Founder, President


Highly technical executive management professional with 30+ years of expertise in cross-functional team-building, team-leadership, identifying, directing, and executing embedded environments. Extensive experience in all facets of embedded project lifecycle-from initial feasibility study and conceptual design to implementation, mass production and support. Worked extensively on analog and mixed signal chip design. Worked in various organization like MRO-TEK, SPA Computers Ltd., Ionic Micro Systems Pvt. Ltd. Holds couple of patents. Delivered 400+ products to market. 200+ in mass production. Successfully delivered 10 power IC’s to customers. Successful Entrepreneur and was founding member of Navsemi technologies Pvt Ltd. (was acquired by Alpha Energy USA). BSET from BITS Pilani.

Nimesh Kanoth

Co-Founder, Vice President - Embedded


20+ years of experience in embedded software, product design, software design, architecture. Worked on wide range of processors, SoCs, RTOS, Linux, Embedded Linux, driver and firmware development for various chipsets (WiFi-BT, Ethernet Switches, WiFi Routers). Worked in various organizations like SPA computers, UST Global, Synapse Design. MCA from Kerala University.

Sanket Bandyopadhyay

Co-Founder, Vice President - Sales & Marketing (World Wide)


20+ years of experience in technology sales and field applications in the semiconductor industry. Extensively worked with a variety of customers in Automotive, Industrial, Communications, Consumer and Mil & Aero segments across United States, India, South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He has worked in various organisations like Avnet and Maxim Integrated, led teams across geographies and has successfully scaled up businesses from infancy. He holds an electronics engineering degree from University of Pune with FMVA® certification from Corporate Finance Institute. He is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from Six Sigma Academy Amsterdam.

Sunil Kumar

Co-Founder, Vice President - Algorithms Development, AI,ML


20+ years of experience in embedded software, product design, software design, solution architecture, developing realtime embedded system software, security software solutions and full stack development. Worked on wide range of processors, SoC’s, RTOS, Linux, Embedded Linux, driver and firmware development for various chipsets (Ethernet Switches, Routers, Industrial Controllers, IOT Gateway, Industrial Gateway). Has experience in wide range of technologies like OpenCV, Cloud computing (Citrix,VMware,OpenStack,AWS),Machine Learning, Node.js framework, Android framework etc. Worked in various organizations like SPA computers, Freescale, LSI, Intel(Denmark). Bachelor of Engineering from VTU, Karnataka.

Sriharsha Desai

Co-Founder, General Manager - Embedded


10+ years of experience in application design development, driver development on Android, Linux, iOS, Linux, Embedded Linux, various processors and SoC’s. Worked in various startup companies. Bachelor of Engineering from VTU, Karnataka.

Manoj Kumar

Head - IC Design RF and Analog / Mixed Signal Designs

20+ years of experience; diversified expertise in analog & mixed signal, RFIC IP and front-end development. Managing complex projects successfully with best quality and on-time delivery.
Expertise in:

  • Ultra low power/Low area highly accurate bandgap, oscillators, security sensors for smartcard, e-gov, secure mobile transaction applications
  • Video front end IP development
  • PLL design for different applications
  • Data converter designs for video application
  • Active filters
  • RFIC IP developments (LNA, Mixer, Filter, LC-VCO, Power Amplifier)

Worked in various companies like Intel. M.Tech from IIT, Kharagpur.

Prasanna Ganapathi

Director - Hardware


21+ years of experience in Embedded Hardware & FPGA from conceptualisation, design, prototype to production. Having expertise in 50 + FPGA Designs on Xilinx, Altera, Microsemi, Lattice FPGA based design and in Freescale, TI, ADI, Atmel PowerPC, ARM, DSP processor based design for medical, industrial, automotive, defence and networking application. 100+ products have been designed and are in production. Bachelor of Engineering from VTU, Karnataka.