Van Buren Township, Mich., USA - January 7, 2015, Van Buren Township, Mich., USA - Visteon Corporation announced that Joanne M. Maguire and Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard have been appointed to the company's board of directors.
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Ms. Maguire served as executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, a provider of advanced technology systems for national security, civil and commercial customers, from July 2006 until she retired in May 2013. Ms. Maguire's experience in the aerospace and defense industry spans three decades.
Before joining Lockheed Martin in 2003, she held a succession of increasingly responsible technical and management roles at TRW – culminating as vice president of business development and deputy to the Sector CEO for TRW Space & Electronics, now part of Northrop Grumman. She also serves on the board of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc..
Ms. Maguire has a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University and a master's in engineering from UCLA. She is a graduate of the executive program in management at UCLA's Anderson School of Management and completed the Harvard Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security.
Mr. Yassini-Fard, an experienced entrepreneur in broadband technology, is the founder and CEO of YAS Capital Partners, a boutique firm specializing in broadband consulting, investment and research founded in 1997. He is known for his pioneering work in cable broadband technology and as the "father of the cable modem."
In addition to his role at YAS Capital Partners, he is executive director of the University of New Hampshire Broadband Center of Excellence, an interdisciplinary initiative devoted to the advancement of broadband Internet technology and services. He is known for his pioneering work in cable broadband technology as the founder and CEO of LANcity and as a prominent contributor to the CableLabs Data over Cable Services Interface Specifications (DOCSIS), a pillar of today's broadband industry.
Mr. Yassini-Fard has served as a member of the board of directors of LANcity, Broadband Access Systems and TrueChat (all of which have since been acquired by other companies), and Entropic Communications. ■