These companies together generated more than $3B of public shareholder value. He was directly involved in two IPOs with Morgan Stanley, and has completed five successful M&A transactions on both the buy side and sell side during his career. He also spent over ten years in early stage venture capital, most of that with Fremont Group – San Francisco where he was a General Partner in their technology VC fund. Keith has served on over two dozen boards, and been a Trustee of the $2.9B Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation in Madison WI, where he was also involved in helping establish a Technology Accelerator for the University of Wisconsin – Madison. His companies have twice won the annual In-Stat Kachina Award for best financially managed company in the Semiconductor Industry. Keith was educated at Stevens Institute of Technology – NJ (ME in Electrical Engineering) and The University of Wisconsin – Madison (MBA in Finance/Int’l Business).

His accountabilities include spearheading machine learning and embedded memory development. Before joining SST, he held series of management and design engineering positions at Virage Logic Corporation and ST Microelectronics, responsible for product marketing, embedded NVM, embedded SRAM designs, memory compiler development, and Place & Route. He holds 23 U.S. patents and has several additional patents pending. Mr. Tiwari has a Bachelor of Science degree in electronics engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) BHU, India, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Santa Clara University, Calif.