B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1981
Ramesh Singh is an internationally recognized semiconductor executive and technology entrepreneur whose four-decade career has helped shape mobile graphics, embedded imaging, data systems architecture and global semiconductor manufacturing collaboration.
A native of Lexington and son of a University of Kentucky engineering faculty member, Singh earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from UK in 1981 before completing his master’s degree in electrical engineering at Southern Methodist University.
Singh is deeply involved in the companies he works with, driving strategies, vision, funding requirements and overall execution. He currently serves as executive chairman of three organizations: VVDN Technologies, a global engineering and manufacturing organization of more than 13,000 employees with an India IPO planned; International Battery Company, a company driving worldwide adoption of giga-watt battery cell manufacturing and cell production of many chemistries; and executive chairman of Living Optics, a hyperspectral imaging innovator based in Oxford, United Kingdom. Additionally, he is co-founder and board director of Tsecond, a defense-tech company specializing in AI and storage infrastructure for tactical operations.
Singh began his career at Rockwell International, working on RF, VLF and advanced signal processing systems. In the early 1990s, he joined Chips & Technologies, helping pioneer the emerging fabless semiconductor model that enabled Taiwan’s rise as a global semiconductor manufacturing powerhouse. He then joined S3 in Silicon Valley, where he led growth in graphics processing during the formative years preceding modern GPUs.
In 1997, Singh co-founded MediaQ, a mobile graphics and multimedia semiconductor company whose innovations powered the first generation of camera-enabled mobile devices and early smartphones for the consumer world. This marked the start of camera-enabled mobility phones and other devices. Under his leadership, MediaQ became a global leader before its approximately $70 million acquisition by NVIDIA in 2003. He subsequently served as vice president of sales at NVIDIA before founding Nethra Imaging, a custom imaging semiconductor company whose technology was used in camera-related products, including RED professional cinema cameras. Nethra was acquired in 2012 by Imagination Technologies, a major supplier of GPU and vision processing IP to the mobile industry.
Singh later served as vice president and general manager at Imagination Technologies and co-founded VisionQ, a fabless semiconductor company focused on edge-computing for the automotive industry. After being acquired by indie Semiconductor, he took on the roles of executive vice president and general manager of the VisionQ business, where he helped advance perception-enabled automotive vision processing for advanced driver assistance systems.
Singh actively supports entrepreneurship and workforce development, mentoring technology founders across the globe. As chairman of VVDN Technologies, he has helped create thousands of engineering and manufacturing jobs while expanding access to technical education in India. His leadership has enabled cross-border technology collaboration and has contributed to national-scale development in advanced manufacturing. The Singh family also supports educational initiatives that expand access to STEM training programs for underserved communities.
Singh prides himself working with leading-edge technologies for large markets and eventual product which are game changers for the community. His established relationships worldwide play an important role in bringing the ecosystem for the different industries. This combination enables success for all parties involved.
