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Quality
control reported directly to C. Lester Hogan. Production Control was part
of Operations until 1966, but was then centralized under George Scalise
(later another of Hogan’s Heroes at Fairchild, and currently President of
the SIA (Semiconductor Industry Association). The Product Marketing MGR
was Reed Neddermeyer, followed by Gary Tooker (later to become Moto
Semiconductor General Manager, and later CEO of Motorola. He still lives in
Phoenix. When I left in ’68, Gary was working for me, as the Plastic
Transistor Product line Manager (operations). Jim Norling, who I hired out
of School, eventually became the PNP product line (metal can) product mgr.
Later when Tooker went to Chicago, to be the MOTO CEO, Norling became Semi
Division Mgr. Later still, was Senior VP for all MOTO Europe. Later ran the
Cell phone division.
Tom Connors was the VP Marketing
and Sales. Briefly, about 1970, he was Semi Division Mgr. Ivars Reimanis
was Plastic Transistor Mgr in the 1968/69 time frame, maybe for much
longer. Bob Borawski was RF Power product mgr, working for me. Later went
back to Law school. Joe Bailey, I hired from TI to run Power Transistors,
later he came to do the same job at Fairchild. Greg Reyes was my general
purpose executive supervised offshore Operations. Later joined me at
Fairchild. Eventually ran the Transistor Division, then the Consumer
product division, at Fairchild. Still on the LSI Logic Board.
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