Art George along with his wife, Gwen George, recently formed The George Development Group (GDG). The GDG provides one on one career coaching and life mentoring to professionals and aspiring professionals in the corporate and business world. They deliver presentations to groups/organizations on building great teams, how to be a great leader and how to have a great career. In addition, they provide customized motivational speeches to groups/organizations. Art and Gwen leverage their combined almost 60 years of experience from their careers in the corporate and business world.

Prior to his retirement, Art was senior vice president and manager over Texas Instruments' (TI's) Analog Engineering Operations. Formed in June 2010, his team is responsible for providing on-going engineering support and driving down production costs across TI's portfolio of ten's of thousands of analog integrated circuit (IC) products. Art brought to the role unique insight gained through a variety of operational positions, where he managed or was involved in the development of thousands of new IC products.

Art led TI's High-Performance Analog (HPA) business unit, which is a billion dollar+ revenue division of TI that develops analog signal chain integrated circuit devices including data converters, amplifiers, interface and clock products. TI is a market leader in all of these areas. Previously, Art managed the High-Performance Linear business unit, which included TI's catalog amplifier and interface ICs. He was heavily involved in the integration of Burr-Brown, which significantly enhanced TI's capabilities in high-performance signal chain products.

Other acquisitions Art led for TI include Chipcon, a leader in low-power radio frequency (RF) technology, as well as directing the acquisition of Integrated Circuit Designs and Innovative Design Solutions, which expanded TI's design resources in low-power RF and high-speed analog, respectively.

Art started his career at TI in 1984 in Logic Operations as a test engineer. Early in his career, he created a worldwide team to document and install standardized evaluation techniques for design verification of new digital logic ICs in diverse locations, such as Texas, Germany, Japan and Malaysia. The obstacles were numerous, with no previously-existing worldwide standards.

He is a graduate of Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering in 1983. In 2007, he received the university's Outstanding Alumni Engineering Achievement Merit Award at the school's 50th anniversary. He also earned a master's degree in engineering management in 1990 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Art has been honored at the Black Engineer of the Year Awards conference twice as one of the 100 Most Important Blacks in Technology. The awards are sponsored by The Council of the Engineering Deans of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities and US Black Engineer and Information Technology magazine. He has also received the Career Achievement in Industry Award from the National Society of Black Engineers. Art is a registered professional engineer (P.E.) in the state of Texas.

Art is passionate about building up the next generation of engineers and actively participates in engineering recruitment, talent development and diversity initiatives on behalf of TI. He is a frequent guest speaker at those universities and at many Dallas area professional organization talent development events.

He was elected to the board of directors of the Nordson Corporation in February of 2012. He serves on the Nordson board and he is a member of their board's audit committee.

He lives in the Dallas area with his wife Gwen George and he has a daughter Tiffany George who is Media Arts & Animation graduate of the Art Institute of Dallas who also lives in the area.

Dr. Kaigham (Ken) Gabriel is deputy director of the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group at Google, a small band of makers and believers who are exploring the future of computing and accelerating the development of promising technology to advance the entire ecosystem. Until the acquisition by Lenovo was announced, Ken was a Corporate Vice President at Motorola, then a Google owned company.

Before re-joining the private sector, Ken served as Deputy Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the principal agency within the Department of Defense for research, development and demonstration of high-risk, high-payoff capabilities for the current and future combat force.

Widely regarded as the "Father of MEMS", Ken was first recruited to DARPA in 1992 to start the Agency's MEMS program, which he grew to more than $80 million per year with more than 70 projects. In 1996, he was named Director of the Electronics Technology Office and tasked with the oversight of some $450 million annually in efforts that spanned from advanced lithography, electronics packaging, MEMS, and optoelectronics, to millimeter and microwave integrated circuits, and high-definition displays. Prior to his Government service, Ken was in the Robotic Systems Research Department at the famed AT&T Bell Labs. While there he pioneered the field of MEMS and started the silicon MEMS effort, leading a group of researchers in exploring and developing IC-based MEMS for applications in photonic and network systems. During a sabbatical year from Bell Labs, Ken was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, where he led joint projects at IBM Japan Research, Toyota Central Research Laboratories, and Ricoh Research Park.

In 2001, Ken founded, and served as Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Akustica, a semiconductor company commercializing Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) sensors for consumer electronics products. Akustica, based in the United States with a global supply chain and customer base, pioneered the use of digital silicon microphones and shipped more than 5 million units to the PC/notebook industry prior to being acquired in 2009.

A businessman, inventor, and disruptive innovation guru, Ken's accolades include being named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum at Davos and awarded the Carlton Tucker Prize for Excellence in Teaching from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-wrote the October 2013 Harvard Business Review cover article, "Special Forces Innovation". Ken holds an S.M. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.