Lip-Bu Tan
CEO of Intel (born 1959)
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- Lip-Bu Tan (Chinese: 陳立武 ; pinyin: Chén Lìwǔ ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Li̍p-Bú ; born November 12, 1959) is a Malaysian-born American business executive who has been chief executive officer (CEO) of Intel since 2025.
- Tan served as CEO of Cadence Design Systems from 2009 to 2021.
- His father, Keng Lian Tan, was the chief editor of the Malaysian Chinese-language daily newspaper Nanyang Siang Pau and his mother, Yeok Choong Chew, was a university warden at Nanyang University.
- Tan graduated from Nanyang University with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1978.
- More recently, he received honorary degrees from the University of San Francisco in 2022 and Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh in 2025.
Lip-Bu Tan (Chinese: 陳立武; pinyin: Chén Lìwǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Li̍p-Bú; born November 12, 1959) is a Malaysian-born American business executive who has been chief executive officer (CEO) of Intel since 2025. He is also chairman of Walden International, a venture capital firm; a founding managing partner of Walden Catalyst Ventures and Celesta Capital; and holds numerous board positions. Tan served as CEO of Cadence Design Systems from 2009 to 2021.
Early life
Tan was born November 12, 1959, in Muar, Johor, in the previous Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) to an ethnic Chinese family in Malaysia. His father, Keng Lian Tan, was the chief editor of the Malaysian Chinese-language daily newspaper Nanyang Siang Pau and his mother, Yeok Choong Chew, was a university warden at Nanyang University. He is the youngest of five siblings.
Tan graduated from Nanyang University with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1978. After graduation, Tan moved to the United States and earned a master's degree in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1981 and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of San Francisco in California.
More recently, he received honorary degrees from the University of San Francisco in 2022 and Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh in 2025.
Career
Walden International
Tan was a manager at EDS Nuclear and ECHO Energy and partner at the Walden USA investment fund before founding venture capital (VC) firm Walden International in 1987. He named the firm after the book Walden by Henry David Thoreau because Tan's goal was to be like Thoreau: "Contrarian, rather than just following the trend."
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