Management

Kishore Seendripu, Ph.D., is co-founder and has served as Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer since the company’s inception in 2003.

Under his leadership, MaxLinear has grown to be a global leader in providing advanced technology solutions for access and connectivity, wired and wireless infrastructure, and industrial and multimarket applications. The company has retained an entrepreneurial spirit committed to bringing technologies that disrupt and drive change and revolutionize connectivity and engineering solutions for a more sustainable, connected world.

Before founding MaxLinear, Kishore spent six years in engineering and leadership roles at Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, Broadcom Corporation, and Silicon Wave, Inc., developing radio frequency systems-on-chip (SoC) wireless and broadband communications solutions. He began his career as a graduate student research assistant at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.

Kishore received an M.S. in Materials Sciences Engineering and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Curtis Ling, Ph.D., is a co-founder of MaxLinear and, since 2006, has served as its Chief Technical Officer. He is focused on forward-thinking technological advancements and identifying solutions that solve market needs. He has also served as its Chief Financial Officer and SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT of Communications Systems, leading the development of sophisticated semiconductor products.

Before MaxLinear, Curtis was a principal engineer at Silicon Wave, Inc. and a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Curtis received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 2023, Michigan awarded him the 2023 ECE Merit Alumni Award for his outstanding career contributions to the field of engineering. He holds over 70 US and International patents.

Steve Litchfield joined MaxLinear in 2018 as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Corporate Strategy Officer. In this role, he leads the company’s finance, IT, and investor relations organizations.

Previously, Steve served in various leadership roles at Microsemi Corporation, a provider of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions. These roles included Executive SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT and Chief Strategy Officer, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT of the Analog and Mix Signal Group, and SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT of Corporate Marketing and Business Development.

Early in his career, he was an equity research analyst at Banc of America Securities and a production engineer at Toyota Motor Corporation. Currently, he serves on the board of directors of several early-stage technology companies that are not publicly traded.

Mr. Litchfield holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, and an M.B.A. from the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Amit Bavisi joined MaxLinear in 2024 and leads the company’s Industrial & Multimarket business unit. In this role, he is responsible for P&L management, strategic planning, design engineering, and go-to-market strategies for our broad portfolio of Serial transceivers, Bridges, UARTs, and Power management and system control products and multimarket solutions.

Amit brings almost 20 years of experience in the technology industry, leading global HW and SW engineering and product marketing teams for various solutions addressing industrial, infrastructure, consumer, and automotive markets. Before joining MaxLinear, he was with Renesas Electronics Corporation, serving as VP of Emerging Business Division leading the secure NFC payment and tag business, portfolio of low power AI SOC, sensors, and advanced connectivity solutions. At Renesas, he also served as VP & GM of the wireless power division. Previously, Amit held leadership roles at Dialog Semiconductor, Intel, Fujitsu Semiconductor, Freescale, and IBM.

Amit received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his undergraduate degree from the University of Bombay. He holds 38 US and international patents in semiconductor product and system design.

Mike Bollesen joined MaxLinear in 2018 as SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT of Sales, bringing a proven record of success in leading global sales and growing markets for technology companies.

With over 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, Mike has a legacy of achievements at Cypress Semiconductor. During his career, he has lived in China and Japan for 13 years and served as the President of Cypress China, VP of Sales for Asia Pacific, GM of the Cypress China and Module business units, President of Cypress Japan and VP Sales Japan. Mike also held the positions of Director of Datacom applications and Director of Marketing.

Mr. Bollesen received an M.B.A. from the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

Vikas Choudhary joined MaxLinear in April 2024, responsible for the business strategy and product development for the company’s Connectivity & Storage business. In this role, he will be driving business and product strategies that enable next generation of connectivity and storage products in data centers, cloud networks, and enterprise markets.

His 30+ year career in the semiconductor industry began as mixed-signal designer at ST Microelectronics. From there, he had continued success with companies such as Texas Instruments, PMC-Sierra/Microsemi and Analog Devices (ADI). Most recently, Vikas served as SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT of Marketing, Sales, and Systems at Murata-pSemi, overseeing growth across consumer mobile, connectivity, wireless infrastructure, and high-performance multi-market components.

Vikas received his M.B.A from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) from UCLA . Vikas is a well published author with multiple patents, peer reviewed journal papers and books to his name.

Kathi Guiney joined MaxLinear as SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT of Human Resources in 2011, bringing over 25 years of expertise in Human Resources in domestic and international business environments.

Prior to MaxLinear, she served as President and Executive Consultant of YES!HRSolutions, contributing her HR knowledge to fast-growing privately held companies in multiple industries. Kathi also has a successful career track record in dynamic HR leadership roles at major public companies, including PRG Schultz, a global financial services company, and Western Digital Corporation, a leader in storage technology.

Kathi’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Oregon, Eugene, and professional human resources accreditations such as the national SPHR and international GPHR.

Mohan Kambhammettu joined MaxLinear in 2010 and leads the company’s Worldwide Operations. In this role, he leads Product and Test Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Foundry Technology, Quality Assurance, and Packaging Engineering.

Mohan brings over 30 years of experience in semiconductor and wireless technology. During his tenure, he has held several leadership roles, including Vice President of Product and Test Engineering and Senior Director of Program Management. Prior to joining MaxLinear, Mohan served as Head of Global Program Management at Freescale’s Radio Products Division within the Cellular Products Group. Earlier in his career, he held technical leadership and SoC design management roles at Skyworks Solutions, Conexant, and Cadence Design Services/Tality. He began his career as a Research Engineer at the Information and Telecommunications Technology Center in Lawrence, Kansas.

Mohan holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications from Anna University in Chennai, India.

Connie Kwong joined MaxLinear as Assistant Corporate Controller in 2015 and a year later was promoted to Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer. In this role, she oversees our accounting functions, including accounting, external audits, financial and SEC reporting, and establishing and maintaining related internal controls and policies and procedures.  During her time at MaxLinear, she has built and led our global accounting team through multiple mergers and acquisitions and related systems integrations. 

Connie's solid experience in previous positions, such as Corporate Controller for a privately held computer services company, and Senior Audit Manager for SingerLewak, LLP, an accounting, tax, and advisory services firm, has equipped her with the expertise for her leadership role at MaxLinear. She received a B.A. in Business Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Madhu Reddy, Ph.D., joined MaxLinear in 2005 as Director of RF/Mixed-Signal IC Design. He held the role of SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT of IC and RF Systems Engineering from 2006 to 2012. He is currently leading the Central Engineering team in MaxLinear that includes System Architecture, System Design, RF/MS IC Design, Communications System Design, Digital IC Design, Package Technology and SOC Technology. In this role, he oversees the research and development of SOCs for MaxLinear that span Wireless, Wireline and Data Compression technologies.

Madhu brings a wealth of knowledge from his previous experience as Manager of RFIC Design at Skyworks Solutions, RFIC Design Engineer and Group Leader at Conexant Systems, and RFIC Designer at Rockwell Semiconductor Systems.

He received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. He has coauthored over 25 scientific journal or conference papers and holds over 30 patents in the areas of wireless and wireline communication systems.

He is a co-recipient of IEEE Microwave Prize in 1997. He also served on the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE RFIC Symposium from 2005 to 2016.

Having joined MaxLinear in 2024, Puneet Sethi serves as SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, Network Infrastructure & Carrier Business. In this role, he’s responsible for strategic planning, product roadmaps, product development, P&L management, and market strategy for our wireless solutions serving backhaul and cellular access segments.

Puneet brings over 20 years of experience steeped in wireless and telecommunication technical and leadership roles within companies such as Qualcomm, Mavenir, and has been involved in establishing multiple startups including his recent stint at Ataya focused on private 5G for manufacturing. At Mavenir, he served as SVP and GM, leading all cloud-native RAN solutions including Macro, Small Cell, and Private Networks businesses. At Qualcomm, Puneet joined as an engineer and rose through the ranks to lead the company’s cellular infrastructure SoC business. Prior to that, he held various engineering roles in multiple telecom companies and brings experiences that spans SoC designs to Cloud-native software products for wireless access and transport.

Puneet received his M.B.A. in finance and marketing from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India.

Rajneesh Gaur joined MaxLinear in 2025 and leads the company’s Data Center Connectivity Business Unit. In this role, he is responsible for P&L, product strategy, roadmaps, product marketing, business development, and execution for connectivity technologies serving Hyperscale and Cloud Datacenter markets.

Rajneesh brings over 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, with a strong background in general management, product leadership and strategic growth across Cloud, Enterprise, and Embedded segments. He began his career at Intel designing microprocessors followed by product marketing for Intel’s network processors. After Intel he joined Cavium at a startup stage and over the years held several key leadership roles for security and networking businesses for Cloud and Enterprise market segments. At Cavium he drove the first hyperscale cloud Smart NIC deployment at AWS. After Cavium’s acquisition by Marvell, Rajneesh led the Cloud and Enterprise Server Connectivity business as SVP & GM with a P&L responsibility of $500M. Most recently, he served as CVP & GM at AMD, where he led a major turnaround of the embedded processor business. He drove innovation in embedded processor solutions and secured major design wins with global technology leaders in networking, storage, automotive and industrial applications.

Rajneesh holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering, and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.