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  • Pantas Sutardja cofounded semiconductor company Marvell Technologies in 1995 with his late billionaire brother, Sehat Sutardja (d. 2024), and his billionaire sister-in-law, Weili Dai.
  • Pantas Sutardja resigned as chief technology officer of Marvell in 2014. His brother and sister-in-law were pushed out in 2016 amid an accounting investigation, though they never faced any charges.
  • Pantas Sutardja invested in semiconductor company Credo Technology's Series A funding round in 2015 and joined its board that year. He owns 3% of Credo, which went public on the Nasdaq in 2022.
  • He is also CEO of LatticeWork, a consumer electronics company he founded in 2013.
  • He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. 

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Age
63
Source of Wealth
Semiconductors, Self Made
Residence
Saratoga, California
Citizenship
United States
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