Dinesh Ramanathan

Bio

Dinesh Ramanathan joined onsemi in May 2023 and currently serves as vice president for corporate strategy, responsible for driving our strategy development and annual strategic planning initiatives.

He has been in the hardware industry for 25 years, designing semiconductor devices software and systems. He is experienced in transforming commodity device businesses to proprietary, software defined device businesses with higher gross margins and larger addressable markets.

Before joining onsemi, Dinesh focused on vertical gallium nitride (GaN) technology and products; co-founding NexGen Power Systems in 2017. He successfully secured over $100M in funding for a state-of-the-art GaN manufacturing facility where NexGen created the first manufacturable, cost competitive vertical GaN transistors, enabling the business to address a $6B power semiconductor market. Prior to that, Dinesh was CEO and president of Avogy Inc., and was executive vice president at Cypress Semiconductors for over 9 years.

Dinesh holds a Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, as well as a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and a Master of Science in Mathematics from BITS, Pilani, India.