Mr. Delfassy, senior vice president of Texas Instruments Incorporated until he retired in 2007, was at the helm of the company’s successful wireless terminals unit since its inception in 1995, growing it into a multi-billion dollar operation. Under his leadership, TI became the world’s number-one supplier of semiconductors for the wireless industry, with more than half the cellular phones in the world built with TI’s chipsets. Among his accomplishments, Delfassy pioneered TI’s “LoCosto” single-chip cell phone technology, an industry first, which brought affordable cell phones to places such as China, Africa, India and other developing areas.  He and his team also developed TI’s OMAP™ platform, bringing multimedia applications to cell phones and ushering in a new era in mobile communications and entertainment.

He joined TI in 1978. Before his position in Dallas, Texas, he served as TI’s European Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Department Manager and led TI’s European Automotive Electronics business.

In 1977, Mr. Delfassy received an Engineering Diploma (Master of Science in Electrical Engineering) at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electronique et d’ Automatique de Toulouse. He then graduated in Business Administration from Institut d’Administration des Entreprises de Paris in 1978.

Mr. Delfassy currently serves as an advisor for companies in the high-tech industry and sits on several corporate boards.