Executive Members & Speaker Bios
  Riaz Haq
  Mohammad Aboobaker
  Safwan Shah
  Arif Gafur
  Moin Ahmed
  Imran Qureshi
  Farid Durrani
  Idris Kothari
  Nadeem Hussain
  M. Rashid Yousuf
  Rehan Jalil
  Muhammad R Hussain
  Nadeem Moghal
  Rashid Ali Baig
  Ali Ahmed Minai
  Arif Mansouri
  Abul Islam
  Ali Hasan Cemendtaur
  Sabahat Ashraf
  Rashad Ali
  Jaffer Hussain
  Amir-ul-Islam
  Syed Mazhar Ali
  Amer Haider
  Nabiha Mauiyyedi
  Zulki Khan
  Tanweer Alam Mallick
  Akbar Ansari
  Ammar Hanafi
 
   
Idris Kothari (EE, 1973)
is a member of the NED Convention 2007 steering committee. He has extensive experience spanning 25 years in emerging technologies including 15 years in high tech start-ups in the Silicon Valley. He co-founded three successful companies in the areas that include: PC Chip-sets, ASICs and Network security. Held management positions of VP Engineering, and VP Operations in these companies. As the technical co-founder of VPNet, Idris was responsible for product architecture and technical implementation. Managed the development process of the first ever hardware assisted VPN system including ASIC design. As the co-founder of Semi-Custom Logic, Idris managed complex technical contracts for the development of ASIC, firmware and complete systems. As the co-founder of VIA Technologies, a PC-AT and SUN-SPARC chip-set development company, Idris managed two separate teams that successfully introduced PC-AT as well as SUN-SPARC Chipsets.