Advisors

Krish Prabhu President & CEO of AT&T Labs, Inc.

Krish Prabhu heads the Advisory Board of Ittiam Systems that guides its long-term business strategy.


Krish is presently the president & CEO of AT&T Labs, Inc., and is responsible for technical and operational activities in the labs and oversees all research and development, with special focus on transferring the knowledge and technology gained through research into services that support AT&T operations and business.

Krish started his career at Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff.
In 1984; he joined Rockwell International’s Network Transmission Division, where he served as Sr. Director of Research and Development. After Rockwell’s Network Transmission Division was acquired by Alcatel in 1991, Krish spent 10 years in various executive management positions with Alcatel. He was named Chief Operating Officer of Alcatel Telecom in 1999. Prior to that he served as Vice President of Business Development and Chief Technology Officer at Alcatel Network Systems, President of Alcatel Broadband Products for Alcatel Europe and CEO of Alcatel USA. He has advised industry-leading telecommunications and semiconductor companies and has served on the boards of Symmetricom, Agere, ECI Telecom and Freescale. In 2001, Krish became a Venture Partner in Morgenthaler Ventures, a communications and information technology focused venture capital firm.

Krish earned a B.S. in physics from Bangalore University in 1973, an M.S. in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1975 and an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1977 and 1980 respectively, where he is a member of the Board of Visitors at the School of Engineering. Krish is a life member of the Development Board of the University of Texas at Dallas.