Lip-Bu Tan
American businessman
Lip-Bu Tan (born November 12, 1959) is an 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 was CEO of Cadence Design Systems from 2009 to 2021.
Early life and education
Tan was born November 12, 1959, in Muar, Johor, Federation of Malaya (modern-day Malaysia), to an ethnic Malayan Chinese family. 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 received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Nanyang University in 1978, a Master of Science degree in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of San Francisco in 1983.
He received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of San Francisco in 2022 and an honorary Doctor of Science and Technology degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 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."
The company grew from $3 million upon its founding to $5 billion by 2001 by focusing its investments in Asian tech startups.
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