Dr. Sehat Sutardja, one of Marvell’s co-founders, has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Marvell Technology Group Ltd. since its inception and as Chairman of the Board since 1999. In addition, he serves as President, Chief Executive Officer, and as a Director of Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. While remaining deeply involved in the daily challenges of running a 5000 person company, Dr. Sutardja participates heavily in Marvell’s engineering efforts across analog, video processor, and microprocessor design while offering input across all of the company’s other product lines. His persistent drive to invent creative technologies has allowed him to achieve 78 patents to date and he is highly regarded as a leader in the design of semiconductors. Dr. Sutardja holds the IEEE’s Fellow Grade status a prestigious distinction which is bestowed upon an individual with an extraordinary record of accomplishment in an IEEE field of interest. No more than one-tenth percent of the total IEEE voting membership is recognized annually with this designation. In 2006 Dr. Sutardja was recognized as the Inventor of the Year by the Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association and he holds Master of Science and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. |