Ray Stata
Ray Stata is co-founder and chairman of Analog Devices, one of the most enduring and globally significant technology companies founded in Massachusetts. A graduate of MIT, he founded Analog Devices in 1965 with classmate Matthew Lorber in Cambridge and served as president from 1971 to 1991 and CEO from 1973 to 1996. As co-founder and the first president of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, he advocated that engineering education and university research funding were a shared responsibility of government and industry, shaping the policy environment that sustained the Route 128 corridor. Stata is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been described as one of the architects of the model that made Massachusetts a global semiconductor and electronics hub.
Early Assembly at Analog Devices with Purchased Transistors
A Career-Defining Instance of Vision and the Courage and Confidence to Risk Everything Personally
Learning Digital Technology and Owning a Market
Adding Digital Production Capability and How Policy Led Them to Ireland
Starting Production of Analog to Digital Converters
Noting That By 1970 Analog Devices Was On Its Way