Co-Founder and formal President of Marvell
Co-Founder and President of FLC Technology
Co-Founder and Executive Chairwoman of MeetKai
Weili Dai is one of the most successful women entrepreneurs in the world. Widely considered a technology visionary, she is the only woman Co-Founder of a global semiconductor company, Marvell Technology Group. As the former President and former board of director of Marvell Technology Group, she has helped Marvell rise to become one of the top semiconductor companies in the world. Ms. Dai’s business acumen, strategic thinking, product leadership, endless passion and personal network have contributed greatly to Marvell’s fast rise to success. Her close relationship with her customers and the foundation of the trust shared with them has given her a strong reputation for professionalism and integrity throughout the technology industry. Ms. Dai served a pivotal role in creating some of Marvell’s most important strategic partnerships, and under her leadership, Marvell’s technology has become an integral component of many of the world’s most important products in enterprise, communications, mobile computing, consumer and emerging markets.
For her contributions to technology and society, Newsweek named Ms. Dai one of the “150 Women Who Shake the World” and was profiled by CNN International for the Leading Women Series: Leading the Female Tech Charge, Leading Women Principles Fair and Care, Educating for Future Success, and Leading Women Inspire Others. Additionally, Forbes Magazine listed Ms. Dai as one of the “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women”. The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) recognized Ms. Dai along with her husband Dr. Sehat Sutardja, Co-Founder and former CEO of Marvell, with the prestigious 2013 Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award, selected due to their exceptional success in creating Marvell, their individual contributions to today’s modern semiconductor age, as well as the talents and expertise they’ve continuously leveraged to address and overcome pressing global issues like education and smart energy. Ms. Dai was named to the prestigious Committee of 100, an organization representing the most-influential Chinese Americans.
Ms. Dai holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. In recognition of their generosity, her alma mater named Sutardja Dai Hall for Ms. Dai along with her husband Sehat Sutardja. Sutardja Dai Hall is home to the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). Celebrated as the glue behind her companies, family and community, Ms. Dai is the proud mother of two sons, Christopher and Nicholas who both received their Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. Ms. Dai was selected as the first woman commencement speaker for the University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering graduation ceremony on May 12, 2012.
Ms. Dai is the Chairwoman of Lark Health through which she has become a powerful advocate for the better use of technology to improve the human condition. Ms. Dai continues to have a relentless passion to innovate through her various active roles in semiconductor technology and software companies, including FLC Technology as the Co-Founder and President and Silicon Box as the Co-Founder and Meetkai as the Co-Founder and Executive Chairwoman where she is leading the charge to make AI concierge a reality.
