Scott McGregor, Broadcom CEO & President, in conversation with Richard Waters, West Coast Editor, The Financial Times
Thursday, February 03, 2011 at 7:45 AM (PT)
Pasadena, CA
DRUCKER BUSINESS FORUM in Pasadena
Scott McGregor, President & CEO, Broadcom
in conversation with Richard Waters, West Coast Editor, The Financial Times
Powering the Connected Era
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Breakfast: 7:45-8:30am
Forum: 8:30-9:30am
Crawford Family Forum at KPCC
474 South Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91105
SCOTT McGREGOR is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Broadcom. In this role, he is responsible for guiding the strategic direction of the company, business development and day-to-day operations.
He joined Broadcom in January 2005 after serving since September 2001 as President and CEO of the Philips Semiconductors division of the Netherlands-based Royal Philips Electronics. Before joining Philips, from 1990 to 1998 Mr. McGregor served in various senior management positions, most recently as Senior Vice President and General Manager, at Santa Cruz Operation Inc. (SCO), a provider of network computing solutions. From 1985 to 1990 he served in senior positions at Digital Equipment Corporation (now part of HP) where he led the UNIX workstation software group and was one of the architects of the X Window System. Prior to joining Digital Equipment Corporation, he worked at Microsoft, where he was the Director of the Interactive Systems Group and the architect and development team leader of the original version of Microsoft Windows®. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. McGregor spent over six years in various positions at the Xerox Corporation’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he was involved in designing software for the first personal computers employing graphical user interfaces.
Mr. McGregor received a B.A. in Psychology and a M.S. in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Stanford University.
RICHARD WATERS is the West Coast Editor for the Financial Times. He appears regularly on the BBC, CNBC, MSNBC, CNNfn and NPR. Waters recently interviewed Robert Reich for the Drucker Business Forum. See the video.
The Drucker Business Forum is produced by The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. The series is co-presented by KPCC.