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DALLAS (February 15, 2007) – Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI)
(NYSE: TXN) announced today five vice president appointments, expanding
leadership across several businesses. These individuals have the experience
and insight to further strengthen the company’s focus on creating
innovations that support customers’ needs.
Steve Gumm has been promoted to TI vice president and manager of technology
development, DLP® Products. In this role, Gumm is responsible for
developing DLP technology solutions in the Front Projection, HDTV, and
Cinema market segments. Gumm has more than 10 years of experience in supporting
TI’s award-winning DLP technology, helping create specialized chipsets
for DLP products across various markets. He holds a bachelor’s degree
in electrical engineering from Tennessee Tech University.
Greg Hantak has been elected TI vice president and manager, worldwide
Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC). He is responsible for
managing ASIC product development and strategy, marketing, integrated
circuit design and engineering for this global organization. Prior to
this role, Hantak served as general manager of TI’s high-performance
analog business in Japan. During his 12 years with the company, Hantak
has managed software development, marketing and engineering across several
TI businesses. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
from Illinois Institute of Technology and a master’s degree from
the University of Connecticut.
Kent Novak has been appointed TI vice president and manager, Medical and
High Reliability semiconductors within High-Performance Analog. He will
lead TI’s efforts in addressing the medical devices market and the
high reliability markets, which include defense and aerospace. During
his four years with the company, Novak has directed the definition, development
and delivery of leading-edge analog and mixed signal electronics addressing
the high speed communications and wireless infrastructure markets. Prior
to joining TI, Novak spent 15 years in the telecom industry. He holds
both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in industrial
engineering from Purdue University.
David Solomon has been promoted to TI vice president and manager, Human
Resources for the Technology and Manufacturing Group (TMG). He is responsible
for worldwide human resources activities for TMG, which includes both
silicon technology development and manufacturing operations. Prior to
this role, Solomon served as TI’s worldwide staffing director, and
before that as human resources director for the company’s wireless
business unit. Solomon holds a bachelor’s degree in communications
from Texas Tech University.
Lars Yoder has been elected TI vice president and manager, Front Projection
Business Unit, DLP Products. He is responsible for leading the DLP front
projection business, which provides competitive projection display solutions
to leading projector manufacturers worldwide. Prior to this assignment,
Yoder held a variety of business and marketing management positions within
the DLP Products organization. In each of his prior roles, he worked closely
with manufacturers to bring highly differentiated products to the marketplace.
Yoder holds a bachelor’s degree in optical engineering from the
University of Rochester and a master’s degree from the Simon Graduate
School of Business, University of Rochester.
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About
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog technologies
to meet our customers’ real world signal processing requirements.
In addition to Semiconductor, the company includes the Education Technology
business. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing,
design or sales operations in more than 25 countries.
Texas Instruments
is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information
is located on the World Wide Web at: http://www.ti.com.
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