Key Executives
President and Chief Executive Officer
Member of the Board of Directors
Scott McGregor is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Broadcom. In this role, he
is responsible for guiding the strategic direction of the company, business development and
day-to-day operations.
Mr. McGregor, who is also a member of the Board of Directors, joined Broadcom in January
2005 after serving since September 2001 as President and CEO of the Philips Semiconductors
division of the Netherlands-based Royal Philips Electronics, At Philips, Mr. McGregor oversaw
one of the world's largest semiconductor suppliers, with 34,000 employees in over 50 countries
and nearly US$6 billion in sales in 2004. In addition to his CEO role, he was also a member of
the Group Management Committee of Royal Philips Electronics. He joined Philips Semiconductors
in February 1998 as head of its Emerging Business unit, focusing on fast growing markets for
smart cards, RFID, networking, digital media processing and computing, and leading the group
to profitability and nearly US$1 billion in sales.
Before joining Philips, from 1990 to 1998 Mr. McGregor served in various senior management
positions, most recently as Senior Vice President and General Manager, at Santa Cruz Operation
Inc. (SCO), a provider of network computing solutions. From 1985 to 1990 he served in senior
positions at Digital Equipment Corporation (now part of HP) where he led the UNIX workstation
software group and was one of the architects of the X Window System. Prior to joining Digital
Equipment Corporation, he worked at Microsoft, where he was the Director of the Interactive
Systems Group and the architect and development team leader of the original version of
Microsoft® Windows®. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. McGregor spent over six years in various
positions at the Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he was involved
in designing software for the first personal computers employing graphical user interfaces.
Mr. McGregor received a B.A. in Psychology and a M.S. in Computer Science and Computer
Engineering from Stanford University.
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