Who are Texas Instruments's decision-makers?

Haviv Ilan has served as President & CEO since April 2023 and assumed the additional role of Chairman of the Board in January 2026, succeeding Rich Templeton who retired after 45 years at TI. Ilan was born in Israel, earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Tel Aviv University, and an executive MBA from the Northwestern Kellogg/Tel Aviv University joint program. He co-founded Israeli RF chip startup Butterfly VLSI Ltd. — which TI acquired for approximately $50 million in February 1999 — and relocated to the US to join TI at that time, rising through senior VP roles in Analog and Embedded Processing before becoming EVP & COO in 2020.

On the technical side, CTO Ahmad Bahai — a UC Berkeley Ph.D. — joined in 2012 via the National Semiconductor acquisition and runs Kilby Labs, TI's advanced research function. SVP & CIO Krunali Patel joined TI in 1996 and leads the Information Technology Solutions organization, overseeing enterprise systems, manufacturing automation IT, and cybersecurity infrastructure. Mohammad Yunus leads Technology & Manufacturing, overseeing TI's 15 global facilities and the $18+ billion, multi-decade 300 mm fab build-out.

The CFO transition is worth noting for sellers: outgoing CFO Rafael Lizardi — architect of TI's 'free cash flow per share' discipline — retires August 31, 2026, with incoming CFO Julie Knecht effective August 1, 2026. Knecht has been with TI since 1999 and served as Chief Accounting Officer since 2021, giving her a deep understanding of TI's cost structure and capital-allocation framework. The transition is expected to be seamless.

For most enterprise technology or services purchases, TI's buying decisions flow through three axes: the CIO office (Krunali Patel, SVP & CIO) for IT infrastructure and enterprise software, the relevant SVP of Engineering or Manufacturing for domain-specific tools, and Procurement/Finance for vendor approval and contract execution. The CFO office sets broad budget envelopes and must approve significant multi-year contracts.

For domain-specific tools — EDA software, lab instruments, cloud infrastructure, fab equipment — the relevant business-unit SVP (e.g., Mohammad Yunus for manufacturing technology, Ahmad Bahai for research tooling) effectively controls the selection decision. TI is a disciplined, process-driven buyer; cold outbound with a business-case ROI analysis and an engineering champion inside TI is far more effective than top-down CXO pitches. For data-analytics or financial-services products, the IR team (Mike Beckman, VP of Investor Relations) is the right entry point.

TI operates two primary reportable segments: Analog ($14.01B revenue in 2025, 79% of total) and Embedded Processing ($2.70B, ~15%). Each segment has dedicated product lines, engineering teams, and sales overlays, though the company runs a unified manufacturing platform and shared channel (direct + distribution). As TI integrates Silicon Labs (expected H1 2027), a third business unit focused on wireless connectivity and IoT edge is likely to emerge.

Globally, TI has major R&D centers in Dallas (HQ), Santa Clara (Silicon Valley), Bangalore (India — one of the largest analog IC design centers outside the US), and Freising, Germany (European engineering hub). Manufacturing is concentrated in the US (300 mm fabs in Dallas, Sherman TX, and Lehi UT) and Asia (assembly/test in Malaysia, Philippines, and China). The company employs roughly 33,000 people across 35 countries.