Poupak Khodabandeh

Poupak Khodabandeh is Syntiant Corp.’s vice president of product. She is an experienced global leader, fluent in semiconductor and electronics industries, who’s excelled at leading major strategic SBU’s and corporate initiatives. As leader of a €250M global semiconductor materials business for Henkel Corporation, she converted decline to double-digit growth in 3 years. She later steered critical transformation initiatives across their €10B adhesives enterprise. Prior to Henkel, she honed her skills at Mindspeed (acquired by MACOM) and Gennum Corporation (acquired by Semtech) in profitably growing key business lines. Poupak holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto, with an early career experience as an IC design engineer. She has lived in three continents and four countries and is fluent in both Farsi and English.