Board of Directors

Saleel Awsare joined Lantronix in November of 2023 as President and CEO of the company. Mr. Awsare came to Lantronix from Synaptics Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor products worldwide, where he served as senior vice president and general manager of its Enterprise and Mobile Division, its largest division. After joining Synaptics in 2017, Mr. Awsare was an integral part of Synaptics’s pivot from Mobile to the IoT and enterprise markets, a move that proved instrumental in driving its multi-fold increase in market valuation. Previously, he served in several senior roles including president of Conexant Systems, LLC, and president of Nuvoton Technology Corporation America. He holds a B.S. from Stevens Institute of Technology and an M.S. from Santa Clara University. He has five patents and has written for multiple publications. Mr. Awsare is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology since September 2017.

Dr. Chittipeddi is currently a Venture Partner at Novo Tellus Capital Partners, a Singapore-based private equity firm, and a Board Member at Tessolve, which is headquartered in India. Most recently, he was executive vice president of Global Operations at Renesas Electronics, where he oversaw internal and external manufacturing and associated functions, including supply chain, procurement and related development. At Renesas, Dr. Chittipeddi also served as executive vice president of its Industrial, IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit. In this capacity, he nearly doubled the revenue to more than $7 billion USD. This business unit included the microcontroller, power and analog-mixed signal businesses of former IDT, ISL and DLG acquisition companies. He joined Renesas in 2019 following its acquisition of IDT. In this capacity, he also served as the president of Renesas Electronics America as well as the CEO of its acquired IDT Division. Dr. Chittipeddi holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in Physics from The Ohio State University. He holds 83 U.S. semiconductor process, package and design patents and has published more than 40 technical articles.

Narbeh Derhacobian has served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of GuRu Wireless, a developer of advanced multi-watt, over-the-air, wireless power transfer solutions, since April 2022. Previously, Mr. Derhacobian was President and Chief Executive Officer of Parabellum Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: PRBM) from February 2021 to December 2023. He was a co-founder of Adesto Technologies (Nasdaq: IOTS), a provider of application specific semiconductors and embedded systems for IoT edge deployments, and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer and as a director from January 2006 until its acquisition by Dialog Semiconductor PLC in July 2020. Mr. Derhacobian’s prior experience also includes senior management roles at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMD), a multinational semiconductor company, from 1995 to 2000, where he served as engineering manager; Virage Logic Corporation (Nasdaq: VIRL), a provider of semiconductor intellectual property, from 2000 to 2004 where he served as director of engineering; Cswitch from 2004 to 2006 where he served as director of technology development; and Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSTI) from 1994 to 1995 where he served as senior engineer. Since January 2022, Mr. Derhacobian has served as a director of Kinara.ai, a venture backed company focused on high efficiency edge AI processors used in smart edge devices and gateways. Derhacobian brings many years of experience as a founder, director and chief executive officer in leading-edge technology companies, as well as extensive mergers and acquisitions experience with both public and private companies and significant operational experience in complex organizations serving Fortune 100 customers.