Alex d'Arbeloff

Alexander Vladimir d'Arbeloff (December 21, 1927 – July 8, 2008) was the American co-founder of Teradyne, a multi-billion dollar Boston, Massachusetts-based manufacturer of automatic test equipment. He was born to a Georgian noble Vladimir d'Arbeloff, from Koutais and German-Russian Baroness Catherine T. (Tiepolt) d'Arbeloff. After graduating in 1949 with an SB in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management , where he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, he and fellow MIT alumnus Nick DeWolf 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 George...