Pradip is currently spearheading Microland's focus on international business. Pradip has several years of unique, in-depth experience across all critical high-tech sectors - application software, data warehousing, CRM, application hosting and IT including multi-NOC environments, storage systems, wireless communications, networking, embedded systems, CAE software and semiconductors.



Prior to this, Pradip was President of 123Signup, Inc., a leading application service provider for event registrations and membership management based in North America. He was the Founder CEO and COO at Rivio, a company that built back-office applications for small businesses and was later sold to CPA2Biz. Prior to that, he was Vice-President of Corporate Marketing for Adaptec ($1B), where he managed marketing for 15 business units. He served as Vice President of Corporate Development and Director of Product Marketing at Echelon ($125M), and led the development of 80+ products and adoption of the company's technology among 3,200 OEMs as a global standard. Earlier, he served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Matra Harris Corporation, a joint venture between Matra ($5B, France) and Harris ($1.7B, US), subsequently sold to Daimler Benz. He launched his career at Intel Corporation.



Pradip holds a B.Sc. (Physics) from the University of Delhi, a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Computer Science, both magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. He is a member of the Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Beta Gamma Sigma honor societies. He is President of AAMA and a charter member of TiE.