Sandeep Vij, vice president of worldwide marketing, is responsible for all aspects of Xilinx worldwide marketing activities across all divisions, products, end markets, partners, channels and geographies. During Vij's tenure, Xilinx has launched some of its most successful products including its Virtex Platform FPGAs, cost optimized Spartan FPGAs, and low power Real Digital CoolRunner CPLDs. To accelerate customer time-to-knowledge and adoption of programmable technology, Vij pioneered the company's innovative mega events including the Terabit Networking Forum, Home Networking Industry Forum, and Programmable World.
From 1997-2001, he was vice-president and general manager of the General Products Division at Xilinx where he had profit and loss responsibility for the company's cost-optimized Spartan Series FPGAs. In that capacity, Vij was responsible for all aspects of chip design, product engineering, product planning, manufacturing and fabrication strategy, and business management.
Vij joined Xilinx in 1996 as Director of FPGA marketing responsible for all aspects of marketing Xilinx's FPGA products. From 1990-1996, Vij held a variety of marketing positions within Altera Corporation. From 1987-1990, he held engineering positions with GE and is a graduate of their Edison Engineering Program.
Vij has an MSEE from Stanford University and a BSEE from San Jose State University. |