Ray Stata, Chairman of the Board
Ray Stata was cofounder of Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI), in 1965. ADI initially focused on operational amplifiers but later expanded into other linear IC’s including data converters and subsequently in digital signal processors (DSP), forging the integration of analog and digital circuits for signal processing applications. Analog Devices is now the leader in Analog IC’s.
Mr. Stata served as President from 1971 to 1991 and as Chief Executive Officer of the Company from 1973 to 1996. He has been Chairman of the Board since 1973 and continues to serve in that capacity.
Mr. Stata is active in the high technology industry and in public service. Throughout his career Mr. Stata has committed himself to numerous programs to develop learning skills in our youth, promote interest in engineering education, and establish quality as a key cultural value for people and corporations around the world.
As co-founder and the first President of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, Mr. Stata advocated that engineering education and university research funding were a shared responsibility of government and industry. As a member of Leaders for Education, he joins other business leaders in a continuous effort to reform K-12 education particularly as it related to in urban communities and as it related to nurturing interest in math and science.
At the federal level, he served on the Executive Committee of the Council on Competitiveness from 1987 to 2005. Mr. Stata's service on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Overseers stemmed from his professional commitment to total quality management.
A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Mr. Stata holds a BSEE and MSEE from MIT, and was until 2010 the Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In 1984 he was elected to MIT's Corporation and served as a member of its Executive Committee until 2010. In 1987-1988 he served as President of the MIT Alumni Association.
Awards
1990 Elected to the
American Academy of Arts and
Sciences
1992 Elected to the
National Academy of
Engineering
1996 Named Foreign Fellow
of Indian National Academy
of Engineering
The Ray and Maria Stata Center at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston
B. Gopinath (Gopi) President and CEO
PhD, Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
Gopi started as scientist at Mathematics Research Center of AT&T Bell Laboratories. His research included applications of Mathematics to Communication, Control and Computer Science. Later, as Division Manager of Systems Principles Research, he managed basic research on telecommunication systems.
Gopi holds several fundamental patents in communication and computer technologies, including early patents on digital receivers for touch tone detection in phone networks, switching systems, composition of software objects, self-timed electrical interfaces, wireless roaming, reaching agreements using text messaging, and implementing value added services using text messaging and roaming in wireless networks.
Gopi’s work in applied sciences has been used in such varied applications as flight controls for helicopters, jets and satellites, automation of processes in large steel plants, control of electric motors in appliances, speech compression, detecting weaknesses in physical structures, oil and gas exploration, text-to-speech applications, systems verification tools, optical network management, caching systems, roaming in mobile networks, etc. Among the most enduring applications has been the “Gopinath Observer” finding new applications almost every year for the last 50 years, the most recent of which was for controlling robotic exoskeletons.
Gopi also has experience in launching and scaling development organizations. One such was Network Programs Ltd, India, founded in 1995 which grew to a team of thousand by 2000, developing advanced systems for such technology companies as Fujitsu and AT&T. In 2001, Gopi founded All Conferencing Inc., a plain vanilla audio-conferencing company and continues to manage it.
Gopi was elected Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions to modelling and analysis of communication systems. He was also the Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at University of Gottingen, Germany from 1973 to 1974, the Gordon McKay Professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1980 to 1981, and the State of New Jersey Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey from 1988 to 1997.
Bill Kerrigan, Advisor
Bill Kerrigan is an accomplished executive with experience ranging from early stage venture stage companies through large, global organizations. He has worked extensively in the security and privacy markets developing and growing SaaS based businesses.
Bill’s career includes more than 30 years of distinguished accomplishments, including roles as President and CEO of Abine, President and CEO of RadialPoint and as EVP of McAfee’s Worldwide Consumer Business. During Bill’s tenure at McAfee, subscription revenue grew 367% to over $400M while subscriber base expanded from 1.8M to over 23M. His background also includes other senior executive roles at Shaman, Corporate Software, and IBM.
Bill is Co-Founder and Director at TrustedSite, operators of the McAfee Secure Web Trustmark business. He serves as a Board Member at RedPoint Global, a leading direct to consumer marketing automation and customer engagement company while continuing as an Executive Advisor to Abine and Tactai, Inc. Bill has been personally profiled or provided thought leadership commentary on the privacy and security industries in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, ZDNet, the New York Times, and other publications.