DALLAS, Feb. 20,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments Incorporated
(TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) today announced that Reginald DesRoches, president of Rice University, has been elected to TI's board of
directors, effective March 1.
"We're pleased to welcome Reggie to our board," said
Rich Templeton, TI's chairman of the
board. "With his decades of experience in academia and background
in engineering, Reggie understands the impact that technology can
have in our lives and the world. We're confident he'll be a
valuable contributor to our strategic discussions."
Dr. DesRoches, 56, has had a distinguished career in higher
education, including positions of increasing responsibility at two
major universities with highly ranked engineering programs. He has
been the president of Rice University
in Houston, Texas, since 2022 and
a professor of engineering since 2017. Prior to his role as
president, he was Rice's Howard Hughes
Provost and the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of
Engineering. Before his appointment at Rice, Dr. DesRoches was the
chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the
Georgia Institute of Technology
(Georgia Tech).
Dr. DesRoches has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical
Engineering, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering and a
Doctorate in Structural Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
"Reggie has a competitive spirit and a track record of leading
organizations to new levels of achievement – which are valued at
TI," said Todd Bluedorn, chair of
the board's governance and stockholder relations committee. "We
look forward to working with him."
About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global
semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, tests and sells
analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as
industrial, automotive, personal electronics, communications
equipment and enterprise systems. Our passion to create a better
world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors
is alive today, as each generation of innovation builds upon the
last to make our technology smaller, more efficient, more reliable
and more affordable – making it possible for semiconductors to
go into electronics everywhere. We think of this as Engineering
Progress. It's what we do and have been doing for decades. Learn
more at TI.com.
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