Kip Hagopian is chairman emeritus of the board of directors of Maxim Integrated Products, a leader in the analog and mixed-signal semiconductor industry.

Hagopian co-founded Brentwood Associates, a high-technology, venture-capital and private-equity firm, and for many years headed its high-technology investment group. As a partner of Brentwood, Hagopian was primarily responsible for several of the firm’s most successful investments, including Apple Computer, Maxim Integrated Products, and Teradata Corporation, all of which are public companies.

During his venture-capital career, Hagopian served several years on the board of directors of the National Venture Capital Association, during which he served as president and chairman. Hagopian also served on then-presidential candidate Ronald Reagan’s Business Advisory Panel and, subsequently, on President Reagan’s Commission on Industrial Competitiveness.

His current non-profit affiliations include memberships on the board of trustees of The California Institute of Technology; the board of governors of the Pardee RAND Graduate School of Public Policy, and the board of advisors of the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management. He is also a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and the Lincoln Club.

Hagopian has authored or coauthored five public-policy articles and five op-eds that have been published in public policy journals and newspapers. Topics included: the progressive income tax; corporate income tax; income inequality; health-insurance reform; and accounting for employee stock options.

Hagopian earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial design and an MBA from UCLA. In 2006, he received the John E. Anderson Distinguished Alumnus Award from the UCLA Anderson School; and in 2010 was named one of Anderson’s “100 Points of Impact” out of 39,000 graduates. After graduate school, he served as an artillery officer in the U.S. Army.