Balu Balakrishnan

Chairman and CEO
Power Integrations

Balu Balakrishnan joined Power Integrations in 1989, serving in a variety of roles before becoming president and COO in April 2001. He was named CEO and appointed to the company's board of directors in January 2002. He was named chairman of the board in 2023. Mr. Balakrishnan has more than 40 years of engineering, marketing and management experience in the semiconductor industry, including product-line management responsibility at National Semiconductor Corporation. He is the chief inventor of several key Power Integrations products and technologies and holds more than 200 U.S. patents. He has received the Discover Award for Technological Innovation as well as a TechAmerica Innovator Award, both in recognition of the environmental benefits of EcoSmart technology.

Presentation(s):

• Innovating for Sustainability and Profitability: How innovations in efficiency enable us to do good for the environment while doing well as a business

  Monday, February 26, 2024
  2:30 PM – 3:00 PM PST