Katsufumi Nakamura Biography and Net Worth

Katsu Nakamura is Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer at Analog Devices (ADI). He is responsible for the company’s customer strategy, enabling frictionless delivery of ADI’s cutting-edge solutions to a diverse, global customer base, and delivering and capturing value for ADI’s technology. He oversees the company’s global sales, marketing, and digital go-to-market, with a focus on delivering a superior end-to-end customer experience and expanding ADI’s selling strategies across channels and ecosystems.

Katsu joined Analog Devices in 1994 as a design engineer, developing ADI’s early technologies in CMOS data converters for embedded applications. He subsequently led ADI’s technology development for digital imaging before assuming the role of the Product Line Director for ADI’s Consumer Product Group in 2011. He later became the leader for ADI’s Healthcare and Consumer technology strategy, and in 2019 was appointed to lead ADI’s sales and marketing in Japan before his appointment as Chief Customer Officer. Katsu is an ADI Fellow, ADI’s highest engineering recognition for technological impact.

Over his career, Katsu has served as a committee member for several IEEE conferences, including the Symposium on VLSI Circuits and International Solid-State Circuits Conference, and is the past Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He is currently on the Executive Committee of the Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits. Katsu was a co-recipient of SRC Inventor’s Recognition Award in 1992 and holds more than 20 U.S. patents. He was also one of the finalists of the 2006 EE Times ACE Innovator of the Year Award and has been an IEEE Fellow since 2019.

Katsu received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.