Mr. Hari has been a Silicon Valley veteran with over twenty five years experience in the technology industry.  He worked in various engineering leadership positions in VLSI development of Communications and Processor products at National Semiconductor Corporation, Amdahl Corporation, TRW Defense Systems before he founded Chiplogic in 1997.  Chiplogic was a Network Processor company for the Customer Premises Equipment market designed to carry multi-service traffic (voice, video and data) over the broadband pipe to the premises.  Chiplogic was acquired by Analog Devices, Inc at the beginning of 2001 and Hari joined ADI as Senior Product Line Director of the Network Media Platforms Product Line.  In this role Hari grew the service provider-focused business, addressing IP communications and triple play strategies including IP STB strategies.

Solar Semiconductor was founded by Mr. Hari Surapaneni and Mr. Venkat Kode in 2006. With offices in California, Dubai and state of the art PV module manufacturing facilities in India, Solar Semiconductor is an internationally known Systems Integration company that specializes in promoting, designing, building and maintaining Solar Photovoltaic (PV) power plants in the US and rest of the world. In only its first full year of production, SSL has built up PV module manufacturing capacity of nearly 200 MW, achieved approximately $95 M in sales and provided employment to over 900 people globally.

Mr. Hari holds an MSCS from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai and an MSCE from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.