Altera Board of Directors

Raghib Hussain is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Altera. He leads the company’s global strategy, business operations, engineering execution, and R&D, driving Altera’s growth as a leader in field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions. With deep technical expertise and a focus on execution, he is focused on accelerating the development of next-generation technologies for multiple target market applications, reinforcing Altera’s position as a high-performance, customer-driven semiconductor innovator. A seasoned technology executive with more than 30 years in semiconductors and systems, Raghib has a strong track record of delivering breakthrough innovation, spearheading large-scale transformation, and building cultures rooted in execution excellence, accountability, and customer obsession. Before joining Altera, he served as President of Products and Technologies at Marvell, where he played a central role in repositioning the company as a leader in AI infrastructure silicon. He led strategy, product development, and R&D investments that fueled growth across key markets, helping the company more than double its revenue during his tenure. Earlier in his career, Raghib co-founded Cavium and served as Chief Operating Officer, scaling the company into a billion-dollar business and a key player in data-centric processing before its acquisition by Marvell, a leading semiconductor solutions provider. He also held engineering and leadership roles at Cisco, Cadence, and the enterprise security startup VPNet. Raghib holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from NED University in Karachi, Pakistan, and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University. He is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program and holds more than 40 patents in networking and security technologies. He has served on the Board of Directors of Cirrus Logic, Inc. since 2021.

Ken Hao joined Silver Lake in 2000 and is a Managing Partner and Co-Chairman. He currently serves as a board member of Altera and Broadcom. Previously, he served on the board of directors of Avago Technologies, NortonLifeLock, ServiceMax, Smart Global Holdings, Solarwinds, Splunk, Symantec and UGS. In 2008, Ken established the firm’s offices in Asia where he led Silver Lake’s investments in Alibaba Group and Ant Financial. Prior to joining Silver Lake, Ken spent a decade as a Managing Director of Hambrecht & Quist (now part of JP Morgan). He graduated with an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College where he played on the tennis team. Ken also serves on the boards of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, UCSF and UTR Sports.  

Ryan Bone joined Silver Lake in 2013 and is a Managing Director. Previously, he worked in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Investment Banking Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Ryan currently serves on the board of directors of Altera, ProService and Vantage Data Centers North America and EMEA. He graduated from Amherst College with a B.A. in Economics. 

Kyle Paster joined Silver Lake in 2011 and is a Senior Partner. Previously, he worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse. Kyle currently serves on the Board of Directors of Altera, Entrata and Qualtrics and previously served on the boards of SecureWorks and ServiceMax. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a B.S. in Economics with dual concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurship. 

Sumit Sadana serves as an independent member of Altera’s Board of Directors, bringing more than 35 years of technology and semiconductor industry experience spanning business leadership, product development, corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and operations. 

Sadana previously served for more than nine years as Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer at Micron Technology, where he led the company’s business units and held responsibility for its profit and loss performance, product roadmaps and customer partnerships. His responsibilities also included corporate strategy, business development, global communications and marketing, and Micron Ventures.

Prior to Micron, Sadana held senior leadership positions at SanDisk, Freescale Semiconductor and IBM. He has served on the Board of Directors of Silicon Labs since 2015 and as its lead independent director since 2022. 

Lip-Bu Tan is chief executive officer of Intel Corporation and serves on the company’s board of directors. He was appointed to his position in March 2025. 

Tan is a longtime technology investor and widely respected executive with more than two decades of semiconductor and software experience, as well as deep relationships across the technology ecosystem. He has received several accolades for his significant contributions to the industry, including being named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in 2026, receiving the 2022 Robert N. Noyce Award, the Semiconductor Industry Association's highest honor, and being recognized as one of Forbes' Top 50 Venture Capitalists.

Tan previously served as chief executive officer of Cadence Design Systems Inc. and was also a member of its board of directors. During his 12 years as Cadence’s chief executive officer, he led a reinvention of the company and drove a cultural transformation centered on customer-centric innovation that enabled Cadence to more than double its revenue, expand operating margins and significantly outperform the market.

Tan is a founding managing partner of Walden Catalyst Ventures and chairman of Walden International, a leading venture capital firm. He has also served on the boards of public companies Credo Technology Group and Schneider Electric.

Tan holds a Bachelor of Science in physics from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, a Master of Science in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of San Francisco. He was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Science and Technology from Carnegie Mellon University in 2025. 

David Zinsner is executive vice president and the chief financial officer (CFO) at Intel Corporation. He leads Intel’s global finance organization, including finance, accounting and reporting, tax, treasury, internal audit and investor relations. 

Prior to joining Intel in January 2022, Zinsner was executive vice president and CFO at Micron Technology Inc. During his tenure, he served on the company’s executive leadership team and was responsible for leading the global finance organization and investor relations. Zinsner has more than 20 years of financial and operational experience in semiconductors, manufacturing and the technology industry.

Earlier in his career, Zinsner served as president and chief operating officer at Affirmed Networks. He also served as senior vice president of finance and CFO at Analog Devices, and senior vice president and CFO at Intersil Corp.

He holds a master’s degree in business administration, finance and accounting from Vanderbilt University and a bachelor’s degree in industrial management from Carnegie Mellon University.