Analog Devices, Inc. has appointed Somshubhro (Som) Pal Choudhury as managing director for the company?s Indian operations.

Pal Choudhury will manage Analog Devices? presence in the country specifically defining and executing strategies to expand business by further developing and strengthening ADI?s relationships with strategic customers, the government and local universities.

Based in Bangalore, Pal Choudhury will be responsible for operational, statutory and compliance accountabilities.

He will also work with the management team in India to support ADI?s growing customer base across corporate R&D, the company?s CPT (Core Products and Technologies) and SMS (Strategic Market Segments) groups and sales.

Pal Choudhury joins Analog Devices from NETGEAR Inc., where he was the product line director responsible for Worldwide Product Marketing and Management. Previously, he worked for American Grid Inc. and Cadence Design Systems in India.

Pal Choudhury holds earned a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, a master of science in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.