Ram is a graduate in Electronics Engineering from IIT, Madras and holds an M.S.E.E. degree from University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He has over 23 years of experience in Silicon Valley in the area of design, manufacturing and marketing of various integrated circuits (ICs). He has successfully started several semiconductor design companies and sold them to larger companies in the last 18 years. His companies were Lotus Designs Corp., Silicon Logic and Startech Semiconductor. All these companies were based in Silicon Valley, USA. Prior to starting his first company in 1982, he worked as a Section Manager at American Micro Systems in Santa Clara, California. He was responsible for designing the world's first DSP chip. Ram has extensive experience in sub contracting manufacturing needs of semiconductors and marketing these products worldwide. His customer list included major PC manufacturers such as Compaq Computers and communication technology companies such as Nokia Systems out of Finland.

Dayakar is a post-graduate in Electronics Engineering from California State University, San Jose, CA, USA (1985). He has over 15 years of experience in Silicon Valley, USA. He started his career with Cirrus Logic, Fremont, USA and held Senior Management positions in Engineering. He has developed several graphics controllers, which helped Cirrus Logic in becoming the leading supplier of graphics controllers. He had filed for 12 patents in 10 years during his stint with the company. He founded his own company in 1994, Future Integrated Systems. He had also filed for 2 patents in the field of LCD display technology. He sold his company to National Semiconductors in 1997 and worked with them as Director of Systems Engineering till early 1999.