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Pradeep Shah is the Founder and President of Texas MicroPower Inc. He has over three decades of technology innovation and product development experience in a large IC company. As a Texas Instruments FELLOW, with over 25 years of innovation and management, he held positions in operating business groups and R&D environments with expertise in semiconductor based opportunity development. Product and technologies developed include rejuvenating the nonvolatile memory business. The first set of CMOS products resulted in direct revenue impact exceeding 2.5-3B$ over the 1985-95 decade. He holds a Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from Rice University.