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WARREN EAST TO JOIN BT BOARD
WARREN EAST TO JOIN BT BOARD.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 2317R BT Group PLC 23 October 2013 \n \n\n23 October 2013\n\nWARREN EAST TO JOIN BT BOARD\n \n \nWarren East, former CEO of ARM Holdings plc, is to join the BT Board as a non-executive director. His appointment takes effect from 1 February 2014.\n\nDuring Warren's career with ARM he led the creation of its Design Consulting and Development Tools business units, and on ARM becoming a public company in 1998 he took up the role of vice president of Business Operations. Warren was appointed chief executive officer in 2001 and over the last 12 years ARM has matured into the world's leading semiconductor IP licensing company. \n \nPrior to joining ARM, Warren spent 11 years at Texas Instruments where he worked on applications and chip design for microcontrollers, analogue telephone devices and local area networks. Warren is currently a non-executive director of Dyson, Micron Technology Inc and De La Rue plc. \n \nIn welcoming the appointment, BT's Chairman, Sir Michael Rake, said: \"I am delighted that Warren will be joining BT. He brings with him in-depth experience of the technology industry which will be a real asset to the Board. \n\nWarren added: \"I'm really pleased to be joining BT at such an exciting time in its strategy execution and look forward to the opportunities ahead.\"\n \nWarren East biography\nFrom 2001 to 2013, Warren East was chief executive officer of ARM Holdings plc, having joined the company in 1994 as general manager, design consulting business unit. Warren was vice president business operations from 1998 to 2000, when he was appointed chief operating officer. \n \nFrom 1983 to 1994, Warren was at Texas Instruments (Semiconductors) where he worked on applications and chip design for microcontrollers, analogue telephone devices and local area networks. Contributions included the design of very low power dialler chips and low system cost integrated analogue voice circuits for telephones, PC modems and LAN adapter system designs. Later he took up responsibility for the marketing of TI's semiconductor devices that can be programmed after manufacturing in Europe. \n \nAfter graduating Warren worked at DataType Limited (terminal design & manufacture) as a Design Engineer working on oscillator subsystem...