M. Kenneth Oshman
Description M. Kenneth Oshman has been Executive Chairman of our Board of Directors since November 2009 and served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of our Board of Directors from December 1988 until November 2009. He also served as our President from 1988 to 2001. Mr. Oshman, with three associates, founded ROLM Corporation, a telecommunications equipment company, in 1969. He was Chief Executive Officer, President and a director at ROLM from its founding until its merger with IBM in 1984. Following the merger, he became a Vice President of IBM and a member of its Corporate Management Board. He remained in that position until 1986. Prior to founding ROLM, Mr. Oshman was a member of the technical staff at Sylvania Electric Products from 1963 to 1969. Mr. Oshman served as a director of Sun Microsystems from 1988 to January 2010 and as a director of Knight-Ridder from 1996 to 2006. Mr. Oshman earned B.A. and B.S.E.E. degrees from Rice University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. To view the detailed information, you need to SUBSCRIBE with us. |
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