An Indian - American CEO of a semiconductor company was shot dead by a sacked employee in US. He was shot dead along with two other persons. Sid Agrawal, the chief executive officer of SiPort Inc, the company's vice president of operations Brian Pugh and an unidentified woman was killed by the attckers.

Several rounds of gun shots were fired at the company's premises in Santa Clara in North California yesterday. Police said investigators are searching for 47 year old Jing Hua Wu, in connection with the shooting. Jing was working with the company as a lead product test engineer. He had recently been laid off from the company.

Agrawal had more than 25 years of experience at start-up and established high-technology companies, including at Adobe, Intel and Bell Labs. He held a degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT-Kanpur, an MS degree from Southern Illinois University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.