Lip-Bu Tan | |
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陳立武 | |
_(cropped).jpg) Tan in 2025 | |
| Born | (1959-11-12)November 12, 1959 (age 66) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | |
| Occupation | Business executive |
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| Spouse | Ysa Loo |
| Children | 2 |
| Chinese name | |
| Traditional Chinese | 陳立武[2] |
| Simplified Chinese | 陈立武 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Chén Lìwǔ |
| HokkienPOJ | Tân Li̍p-bú |
| Website | newsroom.intel.com |
Lip-Bu Tan (Chinese:陳立武;pinyin:Chén Lìwǔ;Pe̍h-ōe-jī:Tân Li̍p-Bú; born November 12, 1959) is an American business executive who has beenchief executive officer (CEO) ofIntel since 2025. He is also chairman ofWalden International, aventure capital firm; a founding managing partner of Walden Catalyst Ventures and Celesta Capital; and holds numerous board positions. Tan served as CEO ofCadence Design Systems from 2009 to 2021.
Tan was born November 12, 1959, inMuar,Johor, in the previousFederation of Malaya (now Malaysia) to an ethnicChinese family in Malaysia.[3][4] His father, Keng Lian Tan, was the chief editor of the Malaysian Chinese-language daily newspaperNanyang Siang Pau and his mother, Yeok Choong Chew, was a university warden atNanyang Technological University. He is the youngest of five siblings.
Tan graduated fromNanyang Technological University Singapore with abachelor's degree inphysics in 1978.[5] After graduation, Tan moved to the United States and earned a master's degree innuclear engineering from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1981[3] and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from theUniversity of San Francisco in California.[3][6][7]
More recently, he received honorary degrees from the University of San Francisco in 2022[8][9] andCarnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh in 2025.
Tan was a manager at EDS Nuclear and ECHO Energy and partner at the Walden USA investment fund before foundingventure capital (VC) firm[10] Walden International in 1987.[11][7][12] He named the firm after the bookWalden byHenry David Thoreau because Tan's goal was to be like Thoreau: "Contrarian, rather than just following the trend."[6]
The company grew from $3 million upon its founding to $5 billion by 2001 by focusing its investments in Asian tech startups. In 2001,Forbes dubbed Tan "the pioneer of Asian VC."[4][13] Tan has focused on global technology investments primarily insemiconductors,artificial intelligence (AI), andsoftware. He has helped to create more than 300 American companies, approximately 50,000 American jobs, and $400 billion in American market capitalization.[14] He worked with 40 American companies through theinitial public offering (IPO) on the U.S. stock exchanges (Nasdaq/NYSE). Additionally, Tan assisted 66 companies with amergers & acquisitions exit.
In February 2004, theCadence Design Systemsboard of directors elected Tan to the board.[15] Tan became interim co-CEO of Cadence in October 2008. The Cadence board formally named Tan president and CEO effective January 2009.[16] Under Tan's leadership, Cadence revenue doubled and generated approximately 4,000% return for shareholders.[17] Tan recruited and trained his successor and stepped down as CEO and became executive chairman in 2021.[18] He later stepped down from the office of chairman of Cadence in 2023.[19]
In March 2025, Tan was namedCEO ofIntel, effective March 18.[20][21] Tan had been on Intel's board of directors from 2022 to 2024.[22][23]
Tan is currently on the board ofUC Berkeley College of Engineering.[24] He also is on the board of trustees ofCarnegie Mellon University School of Engineering[25] of which he is a member of the Dean's Advocacy Council, and established the Tan Endowed Graduate Fellowship for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.[26]
Tan is also a trustee at theFuller Theological Seminary, where he was a founding member of the Insight Council, and received the Imec 2023 Lifetime of Innovation Award[27] for his contributions to the chip industry and the entrepreneurship in the tech industry.
Tan is on the boards ofIntel,[28]Schneider Electric, and Credo Technology Group. He was on the boards ofHewlett Packard Enterprise,Softbank Capital,[29]Ambarella,Flextronics International,Inphi Corporation,Mindtree,Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, and theUnited Overseas Bank.[30]
Tan is a member ofThe Business Council.[31][32] He is also a member of theCommittee of 100.[4][30]
In November 2019, Tan and Cadence Design Systemsendowed twocomputer science professorships for $3 million each atCarnegie Mellon University inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.[33] In June 2024, Tan pledged a gift of S$3 million[34] toNanyang Technology University (NTU) to set up a new professorship inartificial intelligence (AI), to attract talent and support the advancement of research and education at NTU's College of Computing and Data Science.
In 2017, the analytics firmRelationship Science named Tan to the Most Connected Executives in the Technology Industry list with a perfect "power score" of 100.[35]
In August 2022, Tan received the Robert N. Noyce Award from theSemiconductor Industry Association (SIA), the industry's highest honor.[36]
Tan was honored with the 2025Phil Kaufman Award for his leadership and impact on the Electronic System Design (ESD) industry.[37]
Tan is an American citizen[38] and lives inPiedmont, California, with his wife Ysa Loo. They have two grown children. A Christian, he adheres toPresbyterianism.[3] Tan has been anelder at the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley since the 1990s.[39]
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| Preceded by | CEO,Intel 2025-present | Succeeded by Incumbent |
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