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Robert Tillman Elected to Cree Board of Directors
The industry veteran served as chairman of Lowe’s Companies from 1998 to 2005 and as a member of its Board of Directors from 1994 to 2005.
Cree has appointed Robert Tillman, to its company’s Board of Directors, and to the Board’s Compensation Committee, effective October 26, 2010.
“We welcome Bob to our Board of Directors,” said Chuck Swoboda, Cree chairman and CEO. “He brings substantial leadership experience as a CEO in a major publicly traded company in the retail distribution industry. His knowledge, operational expertise and insight into consumer products should be very valuable to our board as we work to accelerate the LED Lighting Revolution.”
Tillman, 67, served as chairman of Lowe’s Companies, from 1998 to 2005, as its president and CEO from 1996 to 2005, and as a member of its Board of Directors from 1994 to 2005. After his retirement from Lowe’s in 2005, he served as a member of the Board of Directors of Bank of America Corporation from 2005 to 2009 and also as a member of its Executive and Asset Quality Committees.
Cree is a market-leading innovator of lighting-class LEDs, LED lighting, and semiconductor solutions for wireless and power applications. Its product families include LED fixtures and bulbs, blue and green LED chips, high-brightness LEDs, lighting-class power LEDs, power-switching devices and radio-frequency/wireless devices.
