Primary Job Title CEO Primary Organization 
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Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Naren built ScanCafe’s processes and control systems from the ground up. With a decade's worth of silicon valley experience in high-tech chip manufacturing with clients like Intel and Samsung, Naren is at home with precision processes and materials. Prior to ScanCafe, Naren was VP of Product Development at Moser-Baer (worlds’ largest DVD &
Blu ray manufacturer), where he set up a thin-film solar panel manufacturing facility. Prior to that as the Director of Applied Materials India and its global development centers in China and Russia, Naren led a team of 900 engineers and associates in building wafer-fabrication equipment with extremely high, "six-sigma" quality tolerances. Naren has applied many of those quality programs to our processes at ScanCafe.
Raised in the beach town of Goa, India, Naren holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, UPenn, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where he completed his doctoral dissertation in confocal laser scanning microscopy and development of bio-materials for tissue regeneration. He got his baccalaureate degree in engineering from BITS, Pilani, India. He has been awarded patents in the areas of remote plasma generation, magnetic shielding of plasmas reactors and Web UI design. When he is not patenting things, Naren likes to paint — mostly oil on canvas.
