Technology >> CEO Interviews >> January 11, 2001

David Macguire – Kemet Corporation (kem)

DAVID E. MAGUIRE has served as Chairman of KEMET Corporation since August 1992 and as CEO and Director since December 1990. He has also served as Chairman, President and CEO of KEMET Electronics since April 1987. From January 1959 until April 1987, Mr. Maguire served in a number of capacities with the KEMET capacitor business of Union Carbide. He is an alumnus of the University of Michigan where he earned BS degrees in both Mathematics and Industrial Engineering in 1959. Mr. Maguire is a Governor of the Electronics Industries Association, a Director of their Parts Division and former Chairman of their Industrial Parts Marketing Committee. Profile
TWST: Could you provide our readers with a brief overview and history of

KEMET?

Mr. Maguire: KEMET had its beginnings as a division of Union Carbide

back in the 1920s, serving the electronic