CAPTIVATED BY CONNECTIVITY
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CAPTIVATED BY CONNECTIVITY
What persuaded Roberto Lu to take on this challenge ? “ Tom had brought in Rob Shaddock as CTO from Motorola : they saw they needed someone to run manufacturing technology so they created my job . I hadn ’ t planned to leave Boeing , but I was really captivated by TE , though I didn ’ t know much
about the company at the time . I was attracted by the breadth of TE ’ s global reach and the realization that it is present wherever there is a signal – whenever you call someone you are going through TE products !”
Having no predecessors , at first Lu worked on his own and without a budget . “ I travelled extensively in the first weeks and I was amazed at the number of opportunities that I saw to contribute on the manufacturing technology side ,” he explains . As a part of the global corporate headquarters organization , reporting to the CEO
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