The Mercury News Interview: Weili Dai, vice president of sales for communications and consumer business at Marvell Technology
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
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Computer Engineering Computing Diversity Electrical Engineering Engineering Diversity Engineering Management Entrepreneurship and Innovation |
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Women and Information Technology Women Inventors |
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Steve Johnson |
| Description: | Interview with Weili Dai, May 24, 2009. Dai makes a great role model of a woman entrepreneur in engineering. Excerpt: "Many people probably have never heard of Weili Dai. But the 47-year-old Los Altos Hills resident is one of the world's richest women and the company she helped create 14 years ago has become a major player in the semiconductor industry. Marvell Technology Group, which Dai cofounded with her husband, Sehat Sutardja and his brother, Pantas Sutardja, lists its principal executive offices in Bermuda, where it was incorporated. But the company's Web site says it is headquartered in Santa Clara, where about 1,850 of its 5,100 worldwide employees are based. Marvell initially focused on supplying chips for hard-disk drives and other data storage products, but now offers chips for everything from routers to cell phones. Along the way, the company's revenue has grown from $21 million a decade ago to nearly $3 billion in fiscal year 2009, catapulting the Shanghai, China-born Dai and her husband onto Forbes' list of richest people, with each being worth $1 billion in 2007." |
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| Keywords: | gender equity Women in IT Asian American |
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(k) Use modern engineering tools in engineering practice |
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Great Asian-American female role model. |
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| Publication Date: | May 2009 |
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WWW |
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| Download URL: | http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2342694/ |
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