Based in Seattle, Karthik is responsible for driving LoRa Cloud Solutions and Partnerships at Semtech. He is currently N. America Regional Vice-Chair in LoRa Alliance. Prior to this Karthik spent 2.5 years at AWS where he led LoRaWAN ecosystem development for AWS IoT and was instrumental in the launch of AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN.  He previously was on the LoRa Alliance Board representing AWS. Before that he spent 8 years at Arm where he led the healthcare segment team focused on the creation of health IoT gateways and drove industry standardization around onboarding data from health IoT endpoints.  Karthik has more than 25 years’ experience working in the industry with companies such as Intel, Microsoft, and Amino and brings a breadth of experience in driving standardization efforts around emerging broadband technologies including DLNA, g.lite & DOCSIS, and major IPTV deployments.