Santa Clara, Ca., USA - National Semiconductor Corp. announced that Brian L. Halla will retire as chief executive officer. Mr. Halla will be succeeded by Donald Macleod who will become the company's president and CEO and be appointed to its Board of Directors, effective November 30.
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Mr. Halla will remain executive chairman of the company.
Mr. Halla joined National as chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer in 1996.
Prior to his current position, he served as the company's chairman, president and chief executive officer from 1996-2005.
Mr. Halla was formerly executive vice president of LSI Logic Corp., responsible for the development of all LSI Logic product lines.
Prior to that, Mr. Halla held management positions at Intel Corp.
He is on the board of Cisco Systems, Inc., the IEEE Noyce Award Committee and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group.
Mr. Halla also serves on the University of California at Berkeley's Engineering and the University of Nebraska Engineering College Advisory boards.
Mr. Halla has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska.
Mr. Macleod joined National in 1978 and was appointed to his current position in 2005.
Prior to becoming president, he was executive vice president and COO, a position to which he was appointed in 2001.
Before becoming COO, Mr. Macleod served as executive vice president and chief financial officer, a position he held for 10 years.
Between 1981 and 1990, Mr. Macleod held senior management positions in finance, operations and marketing for National in England, Scotland, Germany and the U.S.
Mr. Macleod was vice president, Volume Products, Europe from 1989 to 1990, and director, Management Services, Europe from 1985 to 1989.
Prior to joining National, Mr. Macleod worked for the accounting firm, KPMG Peat Marwick.
He is a board member and former president of the Cupertino (Calif.) Educational Endowment Foundation, which provides supplemental financial support to a school district of 15,000 students.
He was a board trustee and eventually chairman of the Financial Executives Research Foundation, a research foundation of Financial Executives International from 1993-1999.
Mr. Macleod is a member of the International Advisory Board of Scottish Enterprise, a public agency responsible for economic growth in Scotland and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. ■