By Cyber Era NG Special Correspondent

CTO Forum has announced that Alan Lee, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), has been appointed to the CTO Forum Advisory Board. CTO Forum brings together senior technology executives, business leaders, and academicians to discuss and collaborate on key technology issues, as well as accelerate innovation across organizations.

“We are delighted to welcome Alan Lee and ADI to the Advisory Board,” said CTO Forum Founding Chair and President Basheer Janjua. “As a visionary technologist and leader, his commitment to architecting and delivering foundational and novel innovations is sure to inspire and benefit the CTO Forum community at large. We look forward to working closely with him.”

“We are delighted to welcome Alan Lee and ADI to the Advisory Board,” said CTO Forum President Basheer Janjua. “As a visionary technologist and leader, his commitment to architecting and delivering foundational and novel innovations is sure to inspire and benefit the CTO Forum community…”

CTO Forum hosts a series of events for its members each year, gathering the brightest minds to connect, debate, and solve the big issues of our time. Through the concerted efforts of the dedicated Advisory Board, CTO Forum has delivered two certificate programs, RETHINK DIGITAL Six Series 1 & 2 – each a next-level tour de force – led by faculty from top universities and distinguished industry leaders. The integrated modules, focused on transformational business models and breakthrough technologies, have delivered custom, personalized digital transformation and emergent technologies playbooks for leaders.

“It is my pleasure to accept this appointment to the CTO Forum Advisory Board. For more than a decade, I have had the pleasure of participating as both a delegate and featured speaker in the CTO Forum’s executive programs. Basheer and I share a passion for understanding and solving difficult problems, as well as for discovering and understanding the latest technologies that have the potential to transform the world. I look forward to the opportunities to collaborate with Basheer and my fellow Advisory Board members,” Lee said.

As CTO of Analog Devices, Lee leads efforts to advance next-generation technologies that are designed to disrupt and shape the semiconductor industry and its markets. Lee and his team collaborate closely with ADI customers, universities, research organizations, and other strategic partners to incubate novel technologies and develop the ecosystems to support their market entry. Formerly with AMD, Lee served as its Head of Research and Advanced Development. While there, his teams developed novel hardware, software, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing technologies and were responsible for many innovations and patents over the past decade. Prior to that, he served as CEO of a privately held company creating technologies for high-frequency trading and quantitative financial analysis. Lee is a well-known industry leader, currently chairing both the CTO Committee for the Semiconductor Industry Association and the CTO Council for the Global Semiconductor Alliance. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Semiconductor Research Corporation and the Board of Trustees for the NSF Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics.