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CommentsTexas Instruments (TI), a Dallas-based electronics corporation, manufactures semiconductors and designs educational technology. TI’s Board of Directors is a varied group of 11 distinctive men and women, all with different corporate skills, who come together to decide the company’s future and plan strategies ahead. The board members are also shareholders in this business.
Richard K. Templeton is TI’s existing president and chief executive officer. After receiving his degree in electrical engineering in 1980, he went on to work for Texas Instruments. He joined the board in July 2003 and became the chairman in April 2008.
James R. Adams, who joined TI in 1989, is the oldest member of the board. In 1988, he was president and chief executive officer of the Southern Bell Telephone Company but retired in 1995. He is currently a board member of the Telecom Corridor Technology Business Council, the Dallas Citizens Council and the Dallas Symphony Association.
Daniel Allen Carp, former chairman and chief executive officer of Eastman Kodak Company, is the non-executive chairman of Delta Air Lines, Inc. He has a master’s degree in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an MBA in Rochester Institute of Technology, and a BBA in quantitative methods from the Ohio University.
David R. Goode retired from being CEO, chairman and president of Norfolk Southern Corp. and as director of Delta Air Lines and Norfolk Southern Railway. He attended Harvard Law School and joined the company in 1996.
Pamela H. Patsley was a senior executive vice president in May 2002 and served as president of First Data International for five years. A director of the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc. and the Molson Coors Brewing Company, she joined the board in 2004.
Ruth J. Simmons is the first black president of an Ivy League institution and is the current president of Brown University. She joined Texas Instruments in 1999.
Christine Todd Whitman is the 50th Governor of New Jersey, and served as administrator to the Environmental Protection Agency for two years from 2001 to 2003. The current president of the Whitman Strategy Group, she became a TI board director in 2003.
Wayne R. Sanders is the chairman of the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group and former chairman and chief executive officer of Kimberly-Clark Corp. He joined TI in 1997.
David L. Boren became a member of the board in 1995. He served as State Senator for Oklahoma from 1979 to 1994. He is the current president of the University of Oklahoma.
Carrie S. Cox is the former executive vice president and president of Global Prescription Business of Pharmacia Corporation in 1999. She joined the board in 2004.
Stephen Macmillan served as chief operating officer and president of Stryker Corp. since 2003. He became CEO in January 2005. The youngest among the board members, he only joined the group last year.
More information about Texas Instruments:
- Browse the complete selection of Texas Instruments products and services
- An overview of DLP Technology projectors
- Texas Instruments buys Luminary Micro
Sources:
http://people.forbes.com/profile/
http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/investor/gov/BoardOfDirectors.shtml
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