Kumar Sankaran heads the Software, Platform Engineering and Solutions Architecture functions for the Ventana high performance RISC-V based CPU solution designed for the Data Center, Edge, Networking, Storage, HPC and Mobile/IoT markets. He plays a key role within RISC-V International to govern the definition of a platform standard for RISC-V. As an accomplished technology executive with over 25 years of experience in software and platform engineering, solutions architecture, product marketing/management, he has executive leadership in all aspects of product life cycle and customer facing technical roles pre/post sales. He has held senior positions at Ampere Computing and Marvell Semiconductor.