EEDA - East of England Development Agency

Nitin Dahad joined the EEDA board on 14 December 2008, and holds a number of different roles in consulting, high-tech start-ups, publishers, and as a non-executive director/board member in private and public sector organisations.

His experience over the last 25 years spans across Europe, USA, and Asia, working with large semiconductor and electronics companies in the early part of his career and then as a commentator/journalist/publisher on various aspects of international business and entrepreneurship. He currently consults through his corporate marketing and business development firm TechSpark, which works with technology start-ups and high-growth companies in leading edge technologies around the world. 
 
Previously, Nitin has spent time with global firms as well as start-ups, including National Semiconductor, GEC Plessey Semiconductor, Marconi Instruments, Dialog Semiconductor, Frontier Silicon and Jennic. Among the most significant achievements during his career was that of taking a UK-based start-up, ARC International, first to Silicon Valley and subsequently through to an IPO (initial public offering) on the London Stock Exchange.
In the public sector, Nitin Dahad served on the Board of Governors at the University of Hertfordshire between 2003-2009, where he also sat on the Finance and General Purposes Committee, Scholarships Committee, and chaired the Disciplinary Appeals Panel. 

He is also involved with charitable and community organisations linked to the state of Rajasthan, India. Additionally, in 1995, he was instrumental in helping establishing a business network for ethnic minority businesses in conjunction with the Hertfordshire Training & Enterprise Council (TEC), now the Business Link.