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CEO Today USA Awards 2019 www.ceotodaymagazine.com 15 and codifying our approach to value creation in this way will help us achieve further success over the next 5 years and beyond. What are your main goals for Keysight Technologies for the next 12 months? Keysight is focused on continuing to apply the KLM to enable success for our customers across our end markets. In communications, we will continue to lead in 5G as devices and services are rolled out around the world. It’s still early days overall for 5G, and there will also be other applications beyond traditional consumer wireless – applications that in some cases intersect with the IoT, Industry 4.0, smart cities, and next-generation vehicles. And even with all that yet to play out, we’re constantly looking ahead. Keysight recently joined the 6G Flagship Program as a founding member to participate in the groundbreaking 6G research that will ultimately lead to the next dramatic increase in capabilities and benefits. In the automotive sector, Keysight will accelerate innovation via the automotive solution centers we’ve located in key innovation hubs such as Detroit, Stuttgart, Tokyo and Shanghai. Building on our acquisition of Scienlab in 2017, we will continue to expand our global Tier-1 automotive customer base and portfolio, delivering solutions for hybrid and electric vehicles and charging systems. The acquisition of Ixia also augments Keysight’s security capabilities for the connected car – a great example of synergy across our businesses. We’ll also expanded the PathWave software platform which we introduced in 2018. PathWave is open, scalable, and predictive, and it covers the entire development and deployment workflow for electronic products. We’re collaborating with industry-leading customers on our emerging PathWave solutions just as we’ve done with other solutions. This enables Keysight to win by helping our customers be first and best in their markets. Finally, Keysight will continue to help customers throughout the lifecycle of their design and test assets, not only with traditional services such as repair and calibration, but with new capabilities including asset management and scalable support with additional benefits from our breakthrough KeysightCare offering. Our customers increasingly view services as a mandatory part of what constitutes a full solution, and we will expand these capabilities going forward. - C A L I F O R N I A - ABOUT RON NERSESIAN Ron Nersesian is chairman and chief executive officer of Keysight Technologies. In November 2011, he was named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Agilent Technologies. The following year, in November 2012, he was promoted to president and chief operating officer. When Agilent announced the separation of its electronic measurement business in 2013, Nersesian was appointed Keysight president and CEO and led the launch of the new company. Keysight became a public, independent company in November 2014. Nersesian was appointed chairman of Keysight in 2019. Nersesian began his career in 1982 with Computer Sciences Corporation as a systems engineer for satellite communications systems. In 1984, he joined Hewlett-Packard and served in a range of management roles during his tenure. In 1996, Nersesian joined another industry player as vice president of worldwide marketing. He subsequently assumed other senior management roles through 2002, including senior vice president and general manager of the company’s digital storage oscilloscope business. Nersesian joined Agilent Technologies in 2002 as vice president and general manager of the company’s Design Validation Division. In 2005, he was named vice president and general manager of the company’s Wireless Business Unit and manager of Agilent’s Santa Rosa, California site. In 2009 Nersesian was named president of Agilent’s Electronic Measurement Group. Nersesian holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University and an MBA from New York University, Stern School of Business. He also serves as an independent director on the Board of Directors of Trimble Inc. and as a member of Georgia Tech’s Advisory Board. Headquartered in Santa Rosa, California, Keysight’s 13,000+ employees operate in 150 locations worldwide and serve customers in over 100 countries across the globe.