Technology >> CEO Interviews >> January 11, 2001
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 ofKEMET?
Mr. Maguire: KEMET had its beginnings as a division of Union Carbide
back in the 1920s, serving the electronic