Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer, Mobiveil Inc
Gopa Periyadan, a serial entrepreneur is currently Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer of Mobiveil Inc., headquartered in Milpitas, California. He brings more than 29 years of senior-level management, engineering, sales and marketing experience in multiple sectors of the electronics industry in Product as well as Services space. Prior to co-founding Mobiveil, he was the Vice President of Business development for Product Engineering Services Business Unit, heading its North America business at L&T Infotech Ltd, an $850M+ Information Technologies & Product Engineering Services company inside $12B+ L&T Group of companies.
Previously, until its acquisition by L&T Infotech in 2006, Gopa was Co-founder and Vice President & General Manager of System & Software Business Unit at GDA Technologies Inc., the pioneering company in Product Engineering Services industry. Prior to that he was the group manager responsible for System Engineering, Technical Marketing, Application Engineering, and System Level Simulation at OPTi, the fastest growing PC chipset provider at that time. Previously he spent four years with VeriFone, the leader in Transaction Automation, working on key engineering functions on the I/O subsystems of Gemstone series of Electronic Cash Registers. Gopa started his career as a hardware engineer with HCL Ltd., in India, driving the implementation of high performance SCSI and tape I/O subsystems of the company’s multiprocessor mini-computing platforms.
Gopa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from NIT Surathkal (India) and an MBA from Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.
