Keysight Executives

Ron Nersesian

Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer

Ron Nersesian is chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Keysight Technologies. In November 2011, he was named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Agilent Technologies. The following year, in November 2012, he was promoted to president and chief operating officer.

When Agilent announced the separation of its electronic measurement business in 2013, Nersesian was appointed Keysight president and CEO and led the launch of the new company. Keysight became a public, independent company in November 2014. Nersesian was appointed chairman of Keysight in 2019.

Nersesian began his career in 1982 with Computer Sciences Corporation as a systems engineer for satellite communications systems. In 1984, he joined Hewlett-Packard and served in a range of management roles during his tenure.

In 1996, Nersesian joined another industry player as vice president of worldwide marketing. He subsequently assumed other senior management roles through 2002, including senior vice president and general manager of the company's digital storage oscilloscope business.

Nersesian joined Agilent Technologies in 2002 as vice president and general manager of the company's Design Validation Division. In 2005, he was named vice president and general manager of the company's Wireless Business Unit and manager of Agilent's Santa Rosa, California site. In 2009 Nersesian was named president of Agilent's Electronic Measurement Group.

Nersesian holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University and an MBA from New York University, Stern School of Business. He also serves as an independent director on the Board of Directors of Trimble Inc. and as a member of Georgia Tech's Advisory Board.

Satish Dhanasekaran

Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer

Satish Dhanasekaran is the senior vice president and chief operating officer at Keysight Technologies. As chief operating officer, Dhanasekaran is responsible for growing orders and increasing annual recurring revenue for the company. He oversees the functions that contribute to these objectives, including market and technology research; development of new technologies, products, and solutions; services; marketing; and sales.

Previously, Dhanasekaran served as the president of Keysight’s Communications Solutions Group, the $3.2 billion global business that addresses the communications ecosystem including wireless and wireline, as well as aerospace defense. He and his team secured Keysight’s leadership in 5G and made significant contributions to accelerate technology adoptions in other key areas, including 400G and electromagnetic spectrum operations.

Dhanasekaran joined the company in 2006. Prior to leading the Communications Solutions Group, he managed the company’s wireless business where he drove the transformation of Keysight's portfolio to provide design and test solutions across the full communications stack, including both hardware and software layers, and positioned the business for leadership in 5G. Dhanasekaran has more than 20 years of experience in the communications industry spanning business leadership, product, and technical roles at Keysight, and Agilent prior to the company’s separation, as well as Motorola.

Throughout his career, he has been at the forefront of communications ecosystem advances. While at Motorola, he led development for first-generation smartphone devices. During his early years at Agilent, his team produced industry-leading performance products in the radio frequency (RF) space. At Keysight, his team played a critical role helping industry-leading customers with cutting-edge design and testing to bring 5G to market.

Dhanasekaran is passionate about progressing technology adoptions rapidly through active industry body participation. He is a member of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Technological Advisory Committee and sponsors Keysight representation in standards bodies such as 3GPP, CTIA – The Wireless Association, GCF/PTCRB, and industry consortia including IMT-2020 and the International Wireless Industry Consortium (IWPC).

He holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Florida State University and an executive education certification from The Wharton Business School.

Ee Huei Sin

Senior Vice President
President, Electronic Industrial Solutions Group

Ee Huei Sin is senior vice president of Keysight Technologies, and president of the Electronic Industrial Solutions Group (EISG) which addresses the automotive, energy, general electronics, manufacturing, education, and semiconductor businesses.

She has more than 28 years of experience in managing a broad portfolio of businesses in the general purpose, electronics measurement, and semiconductor industries where she has held a variety of key global positions in marketing, manufacturing, order fulfillment, engineering, and business management.

Ee was previously the vice president and general manager of Keysight’s General Electronics Measurement Solutions where she drove the company’s diverse portfolio of businesses across the broad-based general electronics and education markets. This encompassed the consumer electronics, healthcare, and industrial and process control segments as well as the education eco-system comprising both teaching and research labs.

Concurrently, Ee was also the vice president of Keysight Education. In this role, she led the company-wide efforts to establish strong relationships with universities and advance long-term preference for the Keysight brand with future customers and employees.

Prior to Keysight, Ee served as the vice president and general manager of Agilent’s General-Purpose Electronic Measurement Division where she was responsible for the general-purpose electronic instruments and test tools.

She holds a bachelor of science degree in microelectronics and physics from Campbell University, North Carolina, and an executive education certification from Columbia Business School.

Gooi Soon Chai

Senior Vice President
President, Order Fulfillment & Digital Operations

Gooi Soon Chai is senior vice president, Keysight, and president of Order Fulfillment & Digital Operations. In this role, Gooi is responsible for Keysight’s Software Test Automation business, Order Fulfillment, Global Procurement & Materials, and Information Technology functions. This includes advancing digital transformation through Keysight’s intelligent software test solutions, digital platforms, and application services as well as managing the end-to-end supply chain that encompasses manufacturing operations, technology centers, global supply chain operations, engineering, global trade logistics, and compliance.

Most recently, Gooi was the president of the Electronic Industrial Solutions Group (EISG) where he established Keysight Technologies as a key player in the automotive, internet of things (IoT) and semiconductor measurement segments. Under Gooi’s leadership, the EISG team made significant contributions to accelerate growth and profitability.

Prior to this, Gooi served as the president of Agilent Order Fulfillment for the company’s Life Sciences, Chemical Analysis, and Electronic Measurement business groups. He was responsible for leading efforts to leverage the company’s strength in supply chain and engineering operations across the three business groups.

In 2006, he was named the Vice President and General Manager of the Electronic Instruments Business Unit (EIBU) at Agilent Technologies. In this role, he managed a diverse portfolio of businesses serving the general purpose, semiconductor, board-test, and nanotechnology markets.

He holds a bachelor of science degree, with first class honors, in electrical and electronics engineering from University of London, and a master of science degree in computing science from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London.

Jeffrey Li

General Counsel and Secretary

Jeffrey Li is senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary of Keysight Technologies, Inc. As general counsel, he leads Keysight's legal, compliance, and customer contracts functions. In addition, Li acts as secretary to Keysight's Board of Directors.

Li has served as vice president, assistant general counsel and assistant secretary of Keysight since December 2013. Before that, he served as senior counsel of Agilent Technologies, Inc. since 2011.

Li was previously vice president and general counsel at Openwave Systems, Inc., a publicly traded software service provider for the communications industry. He also served as a corporate securities and tax attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop.

Li holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and philosophy from Amherst College, a J.D. from University of California Hastings College of the Law, and an LL.M in tax law from Golden Gate University.

John Skinner

Principal Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller

John Skinner is vice president, Principal Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller of Keysight Technologies. He is responsible for all company accounting and financial reporting functions.

Skinner joined Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) in 1988 where he served in a wide range of financial positions in HP's Test and Measurement Organization which included field, factory and international assignments. After Agilent's separation from HP in 1999, Skinner held a variety of senior roles in business and corporate finance. In 2005, Skinner was named the operational CFO of Agilent’s Operational Support Solutions Group. In 2009, Skinner served as the company's senior director of Enterprise Management Reporting. In 2012, Skinner was promoted to vice president and controller for Global Infrastructure and Enterprise Financial Planning and Analysis. In 2014, he was named Principal Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller of Keysight.

Skinner holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Illinois and a B.S. in Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.