Ashfaq Munshi CEO & Chairman Radiance Technologies

Ashfaq Munshi is the CEO and Chairman of the Board at Radiance Technologies. Ash brings a unique mix of 20 years of entrepreneurship, engineering, marketing, and management experience to Radiance. In addition to Radiance, Ash has founded three other Silicon Valley companies: Vivecon (where he currently serves on the Board), SpecialtyMD (acquired by Ventro), and Commerce Engine (became Ariba).

Earlier in his career, Ash served as a corporate vice president at Applied Materials, where he was responsible for the software arm of the company. Prior to Applied Materials, Ash was Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise Business Unit at SGI. Ash began his executive career at Oracle Corporation where he was director of development and marketing.

Ash is on the Dean's Leadership Council for the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard University, where he frequently lectures about entrepreneurship and start-ups. He also has a very strong background in Compilation Technologies.

Ash holds an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard. He has completed graduate work in computer science at Brown and UCSC and is an alumnus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.