Patrick J Byrne

Byrne has more than 22 years of experience at Agilent and Hewlett-Packard Co. He joined HP in 1983 as an ASIC design engineer for the company's Components Group. In 1991 Byrne moved to HP's Test & Measurement Group in Colorado Springs, Colo., where he managed R&D and marketing teams focused on business development for the computer industry, ultimately becoming the division general manager. In 1999, when Agilent was spun off from HP, Byrne was named vice president for EPSG's Product Generation Unit, and in 2001 was appointed vice president and general manager for the Wireless Business Unit. Byrne, 44, was born in San Jose, Calif. He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He currently serves on the boards of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University and the United Way of Sonoma-Mendocino-Lake.