Dave Pahl is vice president and head of Investor Relations, where he oversees communications with TI’s investor community. Previously, he had served as a director in the department.

Pahl started his career at TI more than 30 years ago as an applications engineer. He then worked in sales and sales management in Silicon Valley for eight years. He returned to Dallas as a marketing manager and then moved to Houston as a program manager. There he managed the development of more than a dozen new products, with teams based in Houston, Dallas, Tokyo and Bangalore. Later, he served as business manager of several product lines in what is now TI's Embedded Processing segment.

Pahl holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Austin.

In addition to his role at TI, Pahl serves on the board of governors of the Dallas Symphony Association and previously was co-chair of the Michigan State University College of Engineering Alumni Association Board.

Mike Beckman is director of Investor Relations, where he works closely with TI’s investor community.

Beckman began his career at TI in 2008 as a systems engineer in Tucson, Arizona, defining dozens of TI’s precision data converters. He then moved into a product line manager role, where he was responsible for the strategy, execution and operations for TI precision products. Shortly after, Beckman moved to Dallas as a business unit manager and led a portfolio of power product lines.

Beckman holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from Iowa State University. In 2017, he was awarded Iowa State’s outstanding young alumni award.