Speaker profile

Mahesh Makhijani

VP of Marketing & Business Development - GrAI Matter Labs

Mahesh Makhijani is currently VP of Marketing and Business Development at GrAI Matter Labs (GML), a company that created the world’s first bio-inspired AI processor for ultra-low latency and low power at the Edge.  Prior to GML, Mahesh served as senior director of product management for Qualcomm’s R&D group. He led a group that served as an accelerator and incubator for key technologies launched by Qualcomm.

Prior to joining Qualcomm, Mahesh served as the lead of systems engineering at Ericsson, where he was responsible for the simulation and standards activities.

He holds an MBA from the University of California, San Diego and received his MS in electrical engineering in 1996.  Mahesh has authored twelve patents and numerous papers in IEEE and other professional organizations.