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Charles Trimble
As President, Chief Executive Officer, and as one of the Company’s founders, Charles Trimble guided Trimble Navigation to its dominant role in the GPS (Global Positioning System) information technology market. Before founding Trimble, Mr. Trimble was manager of Integrated Circuit Research and Development at Hewlett-Packard’s Santa Clara Division. During his tenure at HP, he was recognized for developing commercial advances in efficient signal processing, high-speed analog-to-digital converters, and digital time measurement techniques to the picosecond level.
Mr. Trimble received his B.S. degree in Engineering Physics, with honors, in 1963, and his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, in 1964, from the California Institute of Technology. He was a member of the Vice President’s Space Advisory Board’s task group on the future of U.S. Space Industrial Base for the National Space Council. In September of 1994, Mr. Trimble was honored with the Piper General Aviation award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) for pioneering the manufacture and application of affordable GPS.
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