Full Name
Sanjeev Keskar
Job Title
CEO
Company
Arvind Consultancy
Speaker Bio
Sanjeev Keskar is the Chief Executive Officer of Arvind Consultancy. After a successful stint of 35 years in the corporate world, out of which about 29 years were in the semiconductor industry, Mr. Keskar incorporated Arvind Consultancy, an advisory firm in the field of developing High-Value Added Eco-System for the Semiconductor and Electronics Industry in India in November 2020.

Prior to this, Mr. Keskar served as Managing Director at Arrow Electronics for India, a leading electronic component global distribution company from June 2015 to October 2020, where he contributed to more than 2X growth of revenue. Prior to that, he served as Managing Director of Sales at PMC-Sierra for five and a half years. He was also elected Chairman of IESA (India Electronics and Semiconductor Association) for the year 2013-14.
Prior to his role at PMC Sierra, Mr. Keskar served as Country Manager, Sales, at Freescale Semiconductor from 2005 to 2009, where he led design win and revenue growth for the India Sales. Prior to that, Mr. Keskar was the Country Manager, India, for AMD Far East Ltd. from 2001 to 2005. There, he started the company’s India operations as the first Country Manager and established AMD India in four years with all major OEM and Channel engagements. Mr. Keskar has also worked at National Semiconductor as Country Manager (1996 – 2001). From 1985 to 1996, Mr. Keskar worked at Max India Ltd. (Avnet India) as Regional Manager, Continental Device India Ltd. as Pune Branch Sales Executive, and at SAJ – Froude, a Pune-based Dynamometer manufacturing company as Assistant Manager.
Mr. Keskar is "Chief Mentor" of STPI IOT Open Lab at Electronics City, Bangalore. Mr. Keskar received a Master’s degree in management science in Marketing and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering and Technology, from Pune University.
Sanjeev Keskar