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Chris Schairbaum is the worldwide business manager for the Portable Audio & Infotainment Business Unit at Texas Instruments. Since joining the company in 1995, he has managed product development, strategic marketing and new business development initiatives for several of TI's custom and mass market-focused semiconductor and software product lines, most notably in the areas of mass storage, digital audio and entertainment. While in TI's Storage Products Group, Schairbaum managed TI's preamplifier product line and was chairman of the new product development team. He then moved to the global strategic projects post for the Advanced Development Group at TI, which focused on integrating second-generation storage technology with innovative business models targeting the personal computer and consumer electronics markets.

This effort led Schairbaum to join the Portable Audio & Infotainment Group in 2000, which was, at its roots, a start-up venture within TI during the infancy of the Internet audio and MP3 boom in consumer electronics. Currently, Schairbaum is the business manager of the Portable Audio & Infotainment Group and continues to lead customer and partner relations, global marketing initiatives and product development. Through his leadership, Texas Instruments has become a leading technology provider in the portable entertainment market through relationships with the major record labels, infrastructure partners and top consumer electronics manufacturers around the world. Schairbuam has served on the board of directors for Digital 5 Corporation and has provided industry insights on technology entrepreneurialship for the annual University of Pennsylvania Wharton Technology Conference. He also was the keynote speaker at the 2002 DSP Expo & Conference and has spoken at several conferences, including the Consumer Electronics Association Conference, Seybold Seminars, MP3 Summit, Digital Hollywood and the Consumer Electronics Show.

Chris graduated from the University of Dayton with a degree in electrical engineering and is currently a masters of business administration candidate at the University of Texas.

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