Lip-Bu Tan

Lip-Bu Tan joined Intel Corporation’s board of directors in September 2022. Tan served as executive chair of the board of directors of Cadence Design Systems Inc., a computational software company providing solutions used to design and develop complex semiconductor chips and electronic systems, from December 2021 to May 2023, and as a member of its board since 2004. He was the company’s chief executive officer from 2009 to 2021, and its president from 2009 to 2017. Tan is also the chair of Walden International, the venture capital firm he founded in 1987, and is the founding managing partner of Celesta Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures. In addition to his role on Cadence’s board, Tan serves on the boards of Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd. and Schneider Electric SE. He previously served on the boards of SoftBank Group Corp. from 2020 to 2022; Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. from 2015 to 2021; Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. China (AMEC), a global semiconductor microfabrication equipment company, from 2005 to 2020; and Flextronics International Ltd. from 2003 to 2012. At Carnegie Mellon University, he serves on the board of trustees and the School of Engineering Dean’s Council; and at the University of California, Berkeley, he serves on the Engineering Advisory Board and its Division of Computing, Data Science and Society Advisory Board. Tan holds a Bachelor of Science in physics from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, a Master of Science in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from the University of San Francisco. He was recently named the 2022 recipient of the Semiconductor Industry Association’s highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award.

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