Thomas Cordner joined TriQuint in January 1998 as Vice President and General Manager Millimeter Wave Communications as a result of TriQuint's acquisition of Raytheon's MMIC operations and was promoted to Vice President TriQuint Texas in May 2002. In 2006 Mr. Cordner along with Texas Vice President Mike Sanna was charged with combining military products operations in Bend OR and Richardson TX into a single unit. From July 1997 to January 1998 Mr. Cordner served as Operations Manager for Raytheon heading its GaAs MMIC operations. Prior to that time Mr. Cordner was an employee of Texas Instruments a semiconductor and communications equipment manufacturer for 32 years most recently as the Operations Manager for its GaAs Operations Group from January 1991 to July 1997. Mr. Cordner received a B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Texas at Arlington. |