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.

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In 1951, Texas Instruments Corp. was founded by John Erik Jonsson, Eugene McDermott, Cecile Howard Green and Patrick Haggerty. Green and McDermott were American geophysicists; Jonsson was a businessman and former mayor of Dallas, while Haggerty was an engineer. The three of them who were Geophysical Service employees, Green, Jonsson and McDermott, bought the company in 1941. Patrick Haggerty came into the picture in 1945 when he served as general manager of the Laboratory and Manufacturing Division.

Before Texas Instruments came about, Geophysical Service Inc. was its subsidiary company. Then in 1939, its company name changed into Coronado Corporation, where Eugene McDermott was president. It was in 1951 that the founders gave birth to a new name, Texas Instruments Corp. In the same year, Eugene McDermott was named chairman of the board, while Erik Jonsson succeeded his position as president. Patrick Haggerty was elected vice president and director, as Cecile Green took over the GSI Unit.

In 1988, Texas Instruments sold Geophysical Service to Halliburton, an oilfield corporation based in the U.S. This was the time GSI became a separate corporation and was no longer connected to TI.

Prior to becoming a semiconductor manufacturer, TI also sold defense electronics to the market in 1942. They focused on this area of business, selling missiles, radar and infrared systems, laser-guide bombs and military computers. As their marketing of such products consolidated, TI sold the defense system to Raytheon, an American defense contractor and industrial corporation.

Early in 1953, Texas Instruments began fabricating and selling semiconductors after having purchased a copyright license to produce them. Two years after, they designed the first all-transistor AM radio, the Regency TR1.

Soon after, TI was able to invent the transistor-transistor logic in 1960s, a hand-held calculator in 1967, and lastly, a speech synthesizer called Speak and Spell in 1976.

In the corporate workplace of Texas Instruments, they have two main departments, the Semiconductors (SC) and the Educational Technology (ET). Leading to about 96% of the company’s income, the semiconductors have many different areas to its products. Examples would be digital analogs, digital signal processors applications, and high-performance analog circuits. The arrival of TI’s graphic calculators in the late 1990s became popular among thousands of students, and it gave credit to their variety of Educational Technology.

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