Larry Blackledge

Larry Blackledge has more than 25 years of semiconductor industry experience including 22 years at Texas Instruments (TI) most recently as General Manager and Vice President of a $400M mixed-signal IC business. Previously, Larry spent a decade in Asia managing TI's Display Solutions and Bus Solutions businesses and guiding numerous successful merger and acquisition events. Since 2007, Larry has also been a Technology Business Management Advisor to The Longreach Group, a private equity firm in Asia. Larry holds an MBA in Marketing & Management from Amber University (Abilene Christian) in Dallas, Texas, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Engineering from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois. He has also studied Japanese language at the Japan Language Institute in Tokyo, passing the JLPT level-4 test.