Founder Profile
Sehat Sutardja
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Sehat Sutardja?
Sehat Sutardja is a founder of Marvell Technology, Inc., which was founded in 1995 with Weili Dai and Pantas Sutardja.
- Company founded
- Marvell Technology, Inc.
- Founded
- 1995
- Co-founders
- Weili Dai and Pantas Sutardja
Background
Electrical engineer (UC Berkeley PhD) who designed Marvell's first CMOS read-channel chips for hard drives and served as CEO from 1995 to 2016.
Founding Story
Sehat Sutardja (1961-2024) was born in Indonesia and earned his master's and PhD in electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley. He co-founded Marvell in 1995 with Weili Dai and Pantas Sutardja and served as chief executive for 21 years, taking the company public in 2000 and building a large storage and networking chip business. In 2016, after an audit committee investigation into sales practices and pressure from activist investor Starboard Value, he left the CEO role and later the board. He then co-founded chiplet-packaging company Silicon Box. He died on September 18, 2024, at age 63. He and Dai donated to UC Berkeley, where Sutardja Dai Hall bears their names.
Education: University of California, Berkeley; Iowa State University; Canisius College.