Pankaj Kukkal, executive vice president of MCU/MPU Engineering for NXP Semiconductors, has been reelected to a fourth term as board chair of the Silicon Integration Initiative for 2025-2026.
Kukkal joined the Si2 board in 2020 and assumed the chair role in 2022. Before NXP, he held executive leadership and engineering positions at Qualcomm and Intel, and design engineering positions at startup Knowledge Based Silicon and Ricoh Electronics.
Kukkal earned a bachelor’s of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India, and a master’s of science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of South Carolina, Columbia.
Si2 is a not-for-profit membership organization composed of suppliers and users who innovate on trusted standards and share solutions that lower development costs and increase design productivity.
Newly elected members of the 2025-2026 Si2 board of directors are:
- James Culp, corporate fellow, GlobalFoundries
- Wilbur Luo, vice president, product engineering, Custom IC Products Group, Cadence Design Systems
- Mo Movahed, vice president, Siemens EDA
- Manoj Selva, vice president and general manager, Product Enablement Solutions Group, Intel Corp.
- Banghyun Sung, distinguished engineer, SK hynix
- Gaurav Varshney, director, technologist and distinguished member of the technical staff, Texas Instruments
Returning members of the 2025-2026 Si2 board of directors are:
- John Lee, general manager and vice president, Semiconductors and Optics Business Unit, Ansys
- Roger Carpenter, hardware engineer, Google
- Niels Faché, vice president and general manager, Keysight EDA
- Leon Stok, Si2 board secretary, vice president, Electronic Design Automation, IBM
- Pankaj Kukkal, Si2 board chair, executive vice president of MCU/MPU Engineering, NXP Semiconductors
- Lu Dai, Si2 board treasurer, senior director of Technical Standards, Qualcomm
- Jung Yun Choi, corporate vice president, Electronics Design Technology Team, Samsung
- Robert Aslett, Si2 president and CEO
- Jacob Avidan, senior vice president, Signoff and Silicon Innovations, Synopsys
