Dr. Bist brings years of entrepreneurial, leadership and IPR domain experience to the founding team of Ashmar. He received the B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, the M.S. degree from Princeton University, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Hawaii, all in Electrical Engineering.

Dr. Bist co-founded VxTel, a successful fables semiconductor company providing silicon solutions for VoIP infrastructure. He led the world wide firmware team at VxTel and helped grow the company from 5 people to over 160 in 2 years. In 2001, Intel acquired VxTel for $550 Million in cash.

Dr. Bist is Founder and CEO of Moxair Inc. a California based technology start up focusing on power management solutions for mobile multimedia devices. He holds 14 US patents and has over 15 other US patents pending.