Our Founders

Ray Stata

Founder and Chairman of the Board

Mr. Stata founded Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI; NASDAQ) now a $100B enterprise. He served as its CEO and Chairman of the Board. Since retiring as CEO of Analog Devices in 1996, his track record of successful collaboration in the industry includes director and investor roles in several successful technology startups. Mr. Stata is active in the high-technology industry as well as in public service. He was a founder and the first president of the Massachusetts High Technology Council and founded the Center for Quality of Management in 1989, where and served as its chairman.

In addition, he has served on the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award board of overseers, the Executive Committee of the Council on Competitiveness, and is a member of the Executive Committee of MIT's Board of Trustees. The Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT, designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, houses the Computer Sciences and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, among other departments of MIT.

The Ray and Maria Stata Centre at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B. Gopinath

Founder & CEO

Dr. B. Gopinath started his career at Bell Laboratories in 1967 after receiving his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He worked on many difficult problems there, in areas ranging from understanding speech to foundations of distributed computing using formal models. He has published in academic and engineering journals and holds many fundamental patents. His notable invention, the "Gopinath Observer," has been a key technology used in induction motors for five decades, recently advancing applications in robotic exoskeleton control to electric air taxis. Chips based on Gopinath Observer are now embedded in most of the millions of induction motors produced today.

Dr Gopinath is honoured as a Life Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to Computer Networks and has held chaired academic positions, including the Gordon McKay Professorship at UC Berkeley and the State of New Jersey Professorship at Rutgers University, Alexander Humbolt Fellow at the University of Gottingen.