Kumar Sankaran brings over 25 years of experience in the areas of software, platform engineering, solutions architecture, and product marketing. He is the Vice President of Software and Solutions and Ventana Micro where he is responsible for bringing their RISC-V solution to market. He is also Chairman of the RISC-V Platform Horizontal Sub-committee that is responsible for developing the platform specification and standard for hardware and software interoperability for RISC-V systems. Prior to this, he was heading solutions and product management for the 64-bit ARM server processor business at Marvell and at Applied Micro where he pioneered the design and go-to market of the Applied Micro 64-bit ARM server processor.