Ray Stata

Throughout his life, Ray Stata has committed himself to programs to develop learning skills in our youth, promote interest in engineering education, and establish quality as a key cultural value for people and corporations around the world.

Ray’s mother was a factory worker.

Raymond Stuart Stata was born on November 12, 1934 in the small farming community of Oxford, Pennsylvania to Rhoda Pearl Buchanan and Raymond Stanford Stata, a self-employed electrical contractor.

Ray’s sister, Joan Stata, was five years older and worked as a nurse in Wilmington, Delaware.

Stata married Maria in June, 1962. The two reside in the Boston area, where they raised their son Raymie and daughter Nicole.

Raymie graduated from MIT and founded Stata Labs which was acquired by Yahoo! in 2004. In 2010, Yahoo! named Raymie CTO. Later on, Raymie founded Altiscale, a Big Data company, that was sold to SAP.

Nicole is also a serial entrepreneur having started Deploy Solutions which she sold to Kronos before funding Boston Seed Capital, a seed venture capitalist that invests in early stage startups.

In 1965, Ray founded Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) with MIT classmate Matthew Lorber in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Before founding Analog Devices, Stata and Lorber, together with Bill Linko, another MIT graduate, founded Solid State Instruments, a company which was acquired by Kollmorgen Corporation's Inland Controls Division.

The building was designed by Frank Gehry.