Dr. Walden C. Rhines
Chairman of the Board at Qorvo
Dr. Walden C. Rhines
Chairman of the Board at Qorvo
Dr. Rhines has served as Chairman of the Board of Qorvo and Lead Independent Director since November 2023. He joined the Board of Directors in January 2015. From 1995 until 2015, he served as a director of TriQuint Semiconductor. Since March 2020, he has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cornami, Inc., a semiconductor processor company focused on fully homomorphic encryption. Since October 2019, he has served as Chief Executive Officer of Rhines Consultants, a consulting firm in the semiconductor, integrated circuit design and manufacturing fields. Dr. Rhines was also CEO Emeritus of Mentor, a Siemens Business, an electronic design automation company, until October 2020, having previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mentor from its acquisition by Siemens Industry, Inc. in March 2017 until October 2018. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Mentor Graphics Corporation from 1993 and chairman of its board of directors from 2000 until the acquisition of Mentor Graphics by Siemens in 2017. Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, he spent 21 years at Texas Instruments, a leading global semiconductor and technology company, with his most recent position as the Executive Vice President of its Semiconductor Group with responsibility for its worldwide semiconductor business. Dr. Rhines serves on two private company boards, Silvaco, an electronic design automation software company, and Pallidus, a producer of silicon carbide wafers. He also served as a director of Cirrus Logic, Inc., a semiconductor company, from 1995 to 2009, as a director of Electronic System Design Alliance, a trade association for electronic design companies, from 1994 to 2019, and as a director of Semiconductor Research Corporation, a technology research consortium from 2002 until 2020. Dr. Rhines served as a director of PTK Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in 2020 and 2021 and as a consultant to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a research investment arm of the U.S. government. In 2021, Dr. Rhines was the recipient of the Global Semiconductor Alliance's highest honor, the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award, which recognizes individuals for their exceptional contributions and leadership within the industry.
