Sasken Communication Technologies Limited (formerly, Silicon Automation Systems, Inc. (SAS)) is a publicly traded (STOCK) company based in Bangalore, India, and specializes in Telecommunication and Embedded Systems products and services. The name ‘Sasken’ is an amalgamation of its original name (SAS) and the Japanese word for knowledge, ‘ken’.

Founded:     1989
Headquarters:     Bangalore, India
Key people:     Rajiv C Mody, Chairman
Industry:     Telecommunication Services
Products:     Telecommunication Systems
Employees:     2,500 (2005)
Website:    http://www.sasken.com/

Sasken has offices at Bangalore, Pune and Chennai (2006) in India, Shanghai in China, Kawasaki in Japan, Santa Clara, Westbury, Plano and Burlington in USA, Ontario in Canada, Mexico City and Monterrey in Mexico (2005), Saint-Laurent-du-Var in France, Frankfurt in Germany, Lund in Sweden and Guildford in UK.

Sasken operates out of its headquarters in Bangalore. Besides its sprawling Global Development Center (called Fac-Z), it also has 3 smaller development centers in Bangalore (Fac-W/T/M), and one center in Pune (Fac-P). A new center is scheduled to be opened in Chennai in 2006. Most of its offices outside India handle sales operations.

Sasken Network Engineering Limited (SNEL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sasken, was created when the company acquired the operations of Blue Broadband Technologies.

Management Team

* Rajiv C Mody, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

* Kumar S Prabhas, Chief Operating Officer

* Dr. G Venkatesh, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, Head-Product Division

* Swaminathan Krishnan, Chief Marketing Officer

* Neeta Revankar, Chief Financial Officer

* Hari Iyer N, Culture Officer & Head HR

* Krishna Jhaveri, Wholetime Director & President, North America Operations

Investors
Sasken is a BSE listed company
Sasken is an Intel Capital portfolio company