Shirish B Purohit is a founding director and currently the CEO of Midas. He has a strong track record in managing development activities in the technology space and in managing a company through its early evolution. He has over 15 years of experience managing design and development activities in industrial automation, monitoring & control systems, telecom and networking products. Prior to Midas, Shirish founded Texel Systems, in 1987, which specialized in automating test and measurement systems. In 1994, he co-founded Midas. Shirish holds a Bachelor's Degree in electrical power & electronics from REC, Nagpur and an M.Tech in electrical engineering from IIT Madras. He specialized in integrated circuits and systems design.