Alexander Vladimir d'Arbeloff (December 21, 1927 – July 8, 2008) was the Georgian-American co-founder of Teradyne, a multibillion-dollar Boston, Massachusetts-based manufacturer of automatic test equipment (ATE).
Early life
He was born to a Georgian noble Vladimir d'Arbeloff, from Kutaisi, and German-Russian Baroness Catherine T. (Tiepolt) d'Arbeloff.
Career
After graduating in 1949 with an SB in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management,[3] where he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, he and fellow MIT alumnus Nick DeWolf founded and built Teradyne into one of the largest players in the global ATE market as integrated circuits became increasingly important to every aspect of modern technology.
Upon his retirement from Teradyne in 2000, he was succeeded by