Hock Tan has served as President & CEO of Broadcom Inc. for 20 years 8 months (7,562 days), holding office continuously since Mar 1, 2006. At present, Hock Tan ranks as the #19 longest-serving chief executive among tracked leaders in the database.
Executive Succession & Corporate Facts
- Predecessor
- Not recorded
- Successor
- Active (Currently serving in office)
- Database Tenure Rank
- #19 Longest-Serving CEO in Database (View Full Rankings →)
- Company Founded
- Jan 1, 1961 (Palo Alto, California)
- Known Aliases
- Tan Hock Eng
Tenure Milestones & Transition Timeline
Hock Tan Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Avago Technologies
Private equity firms KKR and Silver Lake appointed Tan as CEO of Avago Technologies following its carve-out from Agilent Technologies.
Avago Completes $37 Billion Acquisition of Broadcom Corporation
Tan engineered the acquisition of Broadcom Corp, adopting the Broadcom name and creating one of the largest diversified chipmakers in the world.
Broadcom Completes $18.9 Billion Acquisition of CA Technologies
Tan diversified Broadcom into mission-critical enterprise mainframe and infrastructure software by acquiring CA Technologies.
Broadcom Closes Landmark $69 Billion Acquisition of VMware
Tan completed Broadcom's largest corporate takeover, integrating virtualization giant VMware to create an enterprise private cloud infrastructure leader.
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