Irwin Mark Jacobs, one of the founders of the Company, has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors since the Company began operations in July 1985. Jacobs served as chief executive officer of the Company until July 2005. He served as the Company's president prior to May 1992.
Before joining the Company, Jacobs was executive vice president and a director of M/A-COM. From October 1968 to April 1985, Jacobs held various executive positions at LINKABIT (M/A-COM LINKABIT after August 1980), a company he co-founded. During most of his period of service with LINKABIT, Jacobs was chairman, president and chief executive officer and was at all times a director.
Irwin Jacobs received his B.E.E. degree from Cornell University and his M.S. and Sc.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Well, started Linkabit back in October of '68 as a result of this work and sold it in 1980, stayed on till '85 and decided it was time to retire. That decision lasted about three months, retirement is not much fun, there's just too many things to be done and so after the three months of retirement ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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