Dr. Curtis J. Crawford is Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of XCEO, Inc. Based in Santa Clara, Calif., XCEO, offers Professional Mentoring and Personal Leadership Development Programs, as well as Corporate Governance and Board Leadership Development Programs, for high-aspiration individuals and forward-looking corporations.
Dr. Crawford currently serves on the Board of Directors of E. I. du Pont de Nemours, ITT Corporation, and ON Semiconductor. Also, he is a Trustee of DePaul University. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Agilysys, Lyondell Petrochemical and The Sisters of Mercy Health Corporation.
Prior to founding XCEO, he served as Chairman of the Board of ON Semiconductor; Chairman, President and CEO of Zilog; President, CEO and Director of Onix Microsystems, and Chairman of the Board of ISTAT Corp. He has also served as a special advisor to several start-up companies.
Dr. Crawford played a key role in leading ON Semiconductor Corporation to a successful initial public Offering (IPO) after separating this $2 billion division from Motorola Corporation in 1999.
From 1997 to 1998, Dr. Crawford was Group President of the Microelectronics Group and President of the Intellectual Property division of Lucent Technologies. From 1995 to 1997, he was the President of the Microelectronics Group. Under his leadership, the business designed, manufactured, and sold semiconductors, electronic components and power systems/supplies worldwide for applications in telecommunications, networked computing, multimedia, wireless and consumer electronics.
Prior to the formation of Lucent Technologies, Dr. Crawford was President of AT&T Microelectronics, a business unit of AT&T Corporation. He previously was Vice President and Co-Chief Executive Officer of AT&T Microelectronics. Before joining the Microelectronics division, Dr. Crawford was Vice President of Sales, Service and Support for AT&T Computer Systems.
Fifteen years at International Business Machines (IBM) preceded Dr. Crawford's tenure with AT&T. He began his career at IBM as a systems engineer and through the years held a variety of sales, marketing and executive management positions at various divisions of IBM. In his last IBM position, Vice President of Marketing, the National Distribution Division generated revenues in excess of $4.5 billion.
A graduate of Governors State University in University Park, Illinois, Dr. Crawford received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration and Computer Sciences and a Master of Arts degree. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University.
Dr. Crawford earned his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Organization and Management from Capella University. In addition, Dr. Crawford has been awarded two Honorary Doctorate degrees. One was received from Governors State University in June of 1996 and one was received from the School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Services (CTI) at DePaul University in June of 1999.
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Dr. Curtis J. Crawford is President and CEO of XCEO, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in executive leadership and corporate governance. He began his career as a systems engineer at IBM Corp. During his fifteen years at IBM, he held a variety of executive positions including Vice President of Marketing. [br] During a ten year tenure at AT&T Corp and Lucent Technologies, Inc., Dr. Crawford was Group President of the Microelectronics Group and President of the Intellectual Property division. [br] He served as Chairman of the Board of ON Semiconductor Corporation; Chairman, President and CEO of Zilog, Inc.; President, CEO and Board Member of Onix Microsystems, Inc., and Chairman of the Board of ISTAT Corporation. [br] Dr. Crawford currently serves on the Board of Directors of E.I. duPont de Nemours Company, ITT Industries, Inc., ON Semiconductors, and Agilysys Corp. Also, he is Trustee of DePaul University. [br] He previously served on the Board of Directors of Lyondell Petrochemical Company and The Sisters of Mercy Health Corporation. [br] Dr. Crawford earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree (Ph.D.) in Organization and Management.
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A few months ago, I was lucky enough to sit next to Dr. Crawford on a flight to SFO. He had just confirmed the date that this book was to be published. I asked him about the book and received the greatest one on one leadership training you could possibly imagine. Dr. Crawford is brilliantly insightful, very funny and his book is definitely worth your time.
The book is built on both his amazing experience and a tremendous amount of research. It's well organized; fast paced, and will provide you with the tools to be a better leader. I recommend it highly.
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