Ray Stata
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Ray Stata is a cofounder and Chairman of the Board of Analog Devices, Inc.(NYSE: ADI).[1]
A native of Pennsylvania, Stata earned BSEE and MSEE degrees from MIT. In 1965 he founded Analog Devices with MIT classmate Matthew Lorber in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Stata was President of the company from 1971 to 1991 and served as CEO from 1973 to 1996. He was named as Chairman of the Board, a role he continues to hold, in 1973.
Before founding Analog Devices, Stata founded Solid State Instruments, a company which was later acquired by Kollmorgen Corporation's Inland Controls Division.
Stata provided major funding for the Ray and Maria Stata Center, an academic complex on the MIT campus.
Stata is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, and was the recipient of the 2003 IEEE Founder's Medal.
He has a son, Raymie Stata, who also graduated from MIT.
