Naeem Zafar | About Me

My Career Accomplishments

I advise start-up and executives in all aspects of starting or running their companies. I’m currently running his seventh startup, TeleSense, an industrial IoT (Internet of Things) company.
Until November 2013, I was the president and CEO of Bitzer Mobile, a company in enterprise mobile security space. The company was purchased by Oracle in 2013.
I’m a member of the faculty of the School of Engineering at the University of California Berkeley. I enjoy teaching multiple courses in entrepreneurship and innovation to undergraduates and graduate students. I’m also the faculty director and adjunct professor for the Northeastern University’s Semester in Silicon Valley program.
In the past, I was been the president and CEO of Pyxis Technology Inc., a company specializing in advanced chip design software for nanometer technology. I also served as the president and CEO of two other high-tech startups (Silicon Design Systems and Veridicom, a Bell Labs spin-off that invented the silicon fingerprint sensors today found on most laptops and on iPhone). I was the vice president of marketing and engineering at several companies prior to becoming the CEO of Veridicom.
Quickturn Design Systems, where I served as the VP of Marketing, had an IPO in 1993, and grew to $125M in revenues. I joined the company as one of the very early employees and designed the world’s first ASIC emulation system.
I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Brown University (magna cum laude), Rhode Island, and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota.
I’m a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs www.TiE.org ) where I chair the TiE Institute.
I’m also a charter member of OPEN ( www.OPENSiliconValley.org ) where I served as the Board Chair (2011 -2016) and the president (2009-2011).