Matthew Lorber

Matthew Lorber was an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur. He was known for developing the inertial navigation system for ballistic missiles and co-founded the company Analog Devices and establishing the Lorber Family Foundation.

Early life and education

Lorber was raised in Brooklyn, NY, with his parents, paternal grandparents, sisters Joan Rosenman and Elaine Rothstein, and his aunt Lenn. He attended P.S. 197 and graduated from Freeport High School on Long Island. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He married Susan Marriott Lorber in 1967.

Lorber joined MIT's Instrumentation Lab, where he helped develop the inertial navigation system for the U.S. Navy's first submarine-launched ballistic missile. He founded Analog Devices with his classmate Ray Stata in 1965. He later founded Copley Controls, acquired by Analogic Corporation in 2008.

Lorber established the Lorber Family Foundation dedicated to expanding opportunities for those less fortunate.