Lip Bu Tan

Lip-Bu Tan (born 1960 in Malaysia) is an executive and entrepreneur presently the President and CEO of Cadence Design Systems and Chairman of Walden International, a venture capital firm.

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• Lip bu tan ceo cadence design systems
• In conversation with Lip Bu Tan Chairman of Walden International
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He was a graduate student in nuclear engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s but the Three Mile Island accident caused a sharp reduction in opportunities in that industry, so instead he studied for an MBA from the University of San Francisco, and founded Walden International. He named the firm after the book Walden by Henry David Thoreau because Tan's goal was to be like Thoreau: "contrarian, rather than just following the trend."

In 2017, the analytics firm Relationship Science named him most connected executives in the technology industry garnering a perfect "power score" of 100.

Tan was a member of the 2014-2015 Term Board of Trustees at Carnegie Mellon University.