Weili Dai

Chinese-born American businesswoman, Weili Dai is Co-Founder and Chairwoman of MeetKai, the first AI personalized Conversational Search company. She is also the Co-Founder, former Director, and former President of Marvell Technology Group. Dai is a successful entrepreneur, and the only female Co-Founder of a major semiconductor company. As of 2015, she is listed as the 95th richest woman in the world by Forbes. She has been profiled by CNN International for the Leading Women Innovator Series and recognized by Forbes as one of “The World’s Most Powerful Women” by Forbes in 2014, among many other recognitions.

Dai was born in Shanghai, China, where she played semi-professional basketball before moving to the US at the age of 17. She has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley and currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Weili Dai holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Today, “Sutardja Dai Hall” named after Ms. Dai along with her husband, Sehat Sutardja, is home to the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). Celebrated as the glue behind her companies, family and community, Ms. Dai is the proud mother of two sons, Christopher and Nicholas, who both received their Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. Ms. Dai was selected as the first woman commencement speaker for the University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering graduation ceremony on May 12, 2012.

Ms. Dai is the Chairwoman of Lark Health through which she has become a powerful advocate for the better use of technology to improve the human condition. She’s now an extremely proud grandmother and continues to have a relentless passion to innovate through her various active roles in semiconductor technology and software companies.