Kumar Sivakumar
Senior Vice President and General Manager
As senior vice president and general manager at Ikanos Communications, Kumar Sivakumar is responsible for creating and executing on Ikanos' product vision and strategy, working closely with hardware, software and customer engineering teams.
Prior to joining Ikanos, Sivakumar held a variety of leadership positions during his 14 years at LSI Logic, including general manager positions for the Communications Division, Communications Standard Products Business Unit and the Broadband Access Business Unit. While at LSI Logic he was responsible for business and product strategy, product and architecture definition, and opportunity qualification. Previously, Sivakumar was responsible for strategic marketing and product development at Raytheon's semiconductor division, where he generated business plans, product strategies, architectural and product definitions and he solidified early customer engagement in SONET, ATM and Fiber Channel Communications. Sivakumar started his career at National Semiconductor as a senior engineer in the Interface Design Group, where he defined and designed portions of an integrated circuit fiber-optic receiver and high-speed phase-locked-loop decoder for the ANSI Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) 122.5 Mb/s standard and designed PHY chips for the Ethernet and SCSI data communications standards.
Sivakumar earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of London, an M.S.E.E. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from University of California, Berkeley.