Thursday, February 14, 2008

Texas Instruments’ Julie England named one of PINK Magazine’s Top Women in Business for 2008

By Pegasus News wire

DALLAS — Texas Instruments today announced that Julie England, a vice president, and general manager of the RFID Systems business, is being honored as one of the Top 15 Women Innovators in Business by PINK magazine, the national magazine for professional women. PINK's exclusive list in the March/April issue profiles the most influential women driving innovation and revenue in corporate America.

Photo not provided by TI, Pink Magazine

Robert Englund, sadly, was shut out of the awards process for the twentieth straight year

"We scoured the upper echelons of corporate America to find the most significant women driving innovation in the U.S. -- and adding major dollars to the bottom line in the process," says Cynthia Good, founding editor of PINK. "These 15 women will soon claim the national spotlight, having birthed new generations of products and services -- creating and sustaining change that continues to transform their organizations."

Julie is being honored by PINK for her vision in applying TI's fast, secure IC memory technology to entirely new high performance smart IC platform for contactless electronic government ID applications, including electronic passports and other identity documents. Julie gained executive buy in for TI's investment in the electronic government ID market and also forged relationships with the State Department and Government Printing Office, which oversees the production, installation and use of smart electronic passports in the U.S.

Julie is a recognized business and technology leader, and was awarded the 2004 Henry Laurence Gantt Medal in recognition of distinguished achievements in management and outstanding service to the community by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Management Association. She has also been honored with the Texas Tech University Distinguished Engineer award and was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame.

Source: Texas Instruments

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