TI Executive Vice President Announces Retirement

Texas Instruments announced that David D. Martin, executive vice president of the corporation, will retire on June 30, 1998.

Martin began his TI career in 1960 as an engineer in the company's semiconductor division. After spending several years in corporate research and as controller of the control products division and of the materials & controls group, he was selected to manage the control products division in 1977. In 1984, he was elected a corporate vice president and named president of the materials & controls group, based in Attleboro, Massachusetts.

Martin assumed responsibility for the consumer products division, the Latin America Division and the Asia Pacific division in 1989, and in 1991 was assigned responsibility for all of TI's international operations in addition to continued responsibility for materials & controls.

In 1993 TI executed a series of strategic transitions to reposition its major businesses, and Martin was elected executive vice president of the company, responsible for the company's materials & controls, personal productivity products, and custom manufacturing businesses. Responsibility for the company's software business was added in 1996. Following the company's divestiture of several businesses, Martin remains responsible for the materials & controls and the educational and productivity solutions businesses.

Martin earned his bachelors degree in physics from Wesleyan University, a master's in physics from Southern Methodist University in 1963, and a masters in engineering administration, also from SMU, in 1968.