Parag Naik

Parag Naik is a visionary technology entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in the telecom and semiconductor industries. He currently leads the Semiconductor, Broadcast at Freestream Technologies, where he is driving innovation in next-generation connectivity, and broadcast infrastructure.
Previously, Parag served as the CEO and Co-founder of Saankhya Labs, India’s first private fabless semiconductor company, Under his leadership, Saankhya developed award-winning Software Defined Radio (SDR) chipsets and communication platforms that have played a pivotal role in India's indigenous telecom hardware ecosystem.
Parag is globally recognized as a leading expert in SDR and Cognitive Radios, and is one of the inventors of transformative technologies such as Direct-to-Mobile (D2M) Broadcast, RANWiser (a cloud-native custom silicon platform), and the RAN Hypervisor, a disruptive 5G RAN cloud architecture.
He holds over 50 international patents in VLSI design, CPU/SDR architecture, digital communications, and hardware-software co-design. He has been receioent of many awards conferred By Governmnet of India as well Named among the “50 Promising Entrepreneurs in India” by The Economic Times in 2020.