Gilles Delfassy

Overview

Mr. Delfassy has served as a Director since January 2008. He is the retired Senior Vice President of the Worldwide Wireless Terminals Business Unit, Texas Instruments Incorporated and was at the helm of the company's successful wireless terminals unit since inception in 1995. Previously he had served as Texas Instrument's European Digital Signal Processing Department Manager and led its European Automotive Electronics business. Mr. Delfassy currently serves as an advisor for 3i and Pitango, which are private companies, and sits on the board of directors of Spansion Inc. and Discretix, a private company. Mr. Delfassy holds an Engineering Diploma (Master of Science in Electrical Engineering) from Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Electronique et d' Automatique de Toulouse and a degree in Business Administration from Institut d'Administration des Entreprises de Paris.