Keith Bargroff

Keith Bargroff is an accomplished engineering leader and strategist with over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor, communications, Internet of Things, instrumentation and smart energy industries. He specializes in the management of integrated circuit and discrete radio-frequency, analog, mixed-signal and power electronics design, along with architecture and system design. He has a proven ability to substantially impact the success of a business.

Prior to pSemi, Bargroff served as chief technology officer of Enverv, a fabless semiconductor company he cofounded to develop communications system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for the smart energy and IoT markets, which was acquired by Semtech in 2015. Bargroff was also cofounder and director of technical strategy for RF Magic, a fabless semiconductor company that developed satellite TV ODU SoC solutions, which was acquired by Entropic Communications in 2007. His other work experience includes senior management roles with Entropic Communications, Elektradyne, Wavetek Instruments and Datron Instruments, and engineering positions with Qualcomm and IBM. Bargroff has been granted 36 patents and has 23 patent application families pending.

Bargroff holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Brunel University, London.