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sid agrawal, sid aggarwal, sid agarwal CEO of Siport killed


In another shocking incident in the United states, another India born techie was killed. Sid Agarwal, the CEO of Siport, an ex-IITian (IIT-Kanpur, 1974, electrical engineering) was shot dead by Jing Hua Wu, recently fired lead product testing engineer of Siport, which is a semiconductor chip company.

Sid Agarwal was a master in building startups and technology companies. Sid earlier held executive management positions at companies like Layer Five Networks, Alliance Semiconductor and Synaptics. He had also worked Adobe, Intel and Bell Labs.

After pssing graduation from from IIT Kanpur, Sid Agarwal received an M.S. from Southern Illinois University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. Jing Hua Wu, who killed Sid Agarwal and his colleagues, had been fired from his job just the day before. By the time the police arrived at the crime scene, Wu had already escaped but the police fnally arrested Wu on early Saturday morning.

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