Pavan Gupta joined TDK InvenSense in December 2021 as the Chief Operating Officer (COO).
Prior to joining, Pavan served as a Director of Hardware Engineering at Apple. During his 6 years at Apple, Pavan led the development of Touch and Force sensing technologies on several generations of iPhones and Air Pods. Prior to that, Pavan spent 10 years at SiTime, a leader in MEMS timing space, growing into the role of Vice-President of Operations where he oversaw SiTime’s worldwide fabless manufacturing, logistics and planning, product and test engineering, and quality and reliability. Pavan has also worked at other MEMS-based companies including FormFactor and NanoGear, Inc. (formerly C Speed Corp). He started his career at IBM.
Pavan received his MS from Stanford University and BS from UCLA, both in Mechanical Engineering. He holds 19 patents on topics ranging from MEMS, packaging, haptics, and force sensing.