Sehat Sutardja
Sehat Sutardja (Chinese: 周秀文; pinyin: Zhōu Xiùwén; born c. 1961 in Jakarta, Indonesia), is the CEO, chairman, and co-founder of Marvell Technology Group. He has been awarded more than 150 patents and is a fellow of IEEE. In 2006, Dr. Sutardja was recognized as the Inventor of the Year by the Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association. He is married to a Shang Hai-born Weili Dai, and is the brother of Pantas Sutardja, both co-founders of Marvell and both also from the University of California, Berkeley as Dr. Sehat Sutardja. Now, both of them are vice president and director, respectively.[1]
Dr. Sutardja has been the president, chief executive officer and co-chairman of the board of directors of Marvell Technology Group since its founding and chairman since 2003. He is also the president, chief executive officer, and a director of Marvell’s U.S. operating subsidiary, Marvell Semiconductor.
Sutardja graduated his high school from Canisius College, Jakarta in 1980. He holds Master of Science and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Iowa State University.
In March 2009, a building at UC Berkeley was named Sutardja Dai Hall after the Marvell founders, who donated more than 20 million US dollars to the university's nano-fabrication laboratory.
In 2007, the Forbes magazine inserted DR. Sehat Sutardja as one of the richest men in the United States ($1 billion List of billionaires), and was one of the World Economic Forum of East Asia 2011 chairpersons.[2]
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- Edward Robinson, Billionaires From Jakarta, Shanghai Undermined by U.S. Options, Bloomberg.com, May 21, 2007
- UC Berkeley building named for Marvell founders, EETimes.com, March 06, 2007
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