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 from 2004 to 2023; 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. Tan serves as chairman of the board of Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd. and is a board member of 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 (EAB) and the Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) 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 is the recipient of Imec’s 2023 Lifetime of Innovation Award, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) 2022 Robert N. Noyce Award and Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) 2016 Dr. Morris Chang's Exemplary Leadership Award.