President
and Chief Executive Officer Gregg
Lowe was appointed President and CEO of Freescale Semiconductor, effective
June 2012. He joined Freescale from Texas Instruments, where he was Senior
Vice President, Analog. In his most recent role at TI, Gregg led the High
Performance Analog, High Volume Analog and Logic, Power Management, and
Silicon Valley Analog businesses. Gregg
joined Texas Instruments in 1984 and served in a variety of leadership
positions during his tenure with the company. Since
April 2006, he has led global strategy and operations for TI's
standard and application-specific analog chips portfolio. These products
provide the connection between digital and real-world signals, such as voice,
sound, pressure, temperature and electricity. Gregg
joined TI's field sales organization in 1984, with
responsibility for growing the company's business with automobile
manufacturers. In 1990, he led TI’s European
automotive sales force, managing teams and customer relationships in France,
Germany, Italy, England and Spain. In
1994, Gregg managed TI's Microcontroller
organization. Later, he led the Application Specific Integrated Circuit
organization for TI, overseeing a worldwide team with design centers and
customers on each continent. In 2001, he moved to the Analog business to
manage High Speed Communications and Controls. Later that year, Gregg became
manager of the High Performance Analog business unit with responsibility for TI's high-performance data converter, amplifier, power
management and interface integrated circuits. Gregg
earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1984 from
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute,
Indiana. He later received the university's Career Achievement Award to
recognize his accomplishments in the community and within the semiconductor
industry. He graduated from the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford
University. He is also fluent in German. Gregg
serves as a member of Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology's Board of Trustees. In
2010, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. in Cleveland, OH,
appointed Gregg to its Board of Trustees. |
