Vice President, Texas Instruments Incorporated
General Manager, RFid Systems
(profile updated in 2008)
As a Vice President of Texas Instruments and the General Manager of the company's RFID Systems group, Julie England brings an opportunistic and inspired perspective to technology, innovation and people. Her role in RFID is particularly fitting, because it provides Julie a medium where she can leverage her past engineering expertise and apply it into new and dynamic applications. Specific to her work in the RFID group, Julie has created opportunities to apply proven RFID technologies into contactless payment applications, government identification applications, and medical applications. Her affection for technology and her leadership skills truly resonate in RFID. Under Julie's direction Texas Instruments' RFID continues as a world leader in wireless identification, asset tracking and secure contactless products.
Building on her technology successes, Julie is equally accomplished and recognized for her leadership achievements in a variety of business, academic and community organizations. Part of her contribution includes providing a voice and platform for business women and women in high tech. Within TI she is sought after for professional development speaking engagements and has developed a career development program which hundreds of TI employees have participated. She is frequently asked to keynote at some of the industry's premiere conferences and tradeshows such as ID World, RFID World, and has spoken at a 2007 U.S. Senate Caucus on the RFID industry.
Additionally, Julie was awarded the 2004 Henry Laurence Gantt Medal in recognition of distinguished achievements in management and community service by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Management Association. She was awarded the Texas Tech University Distinguished Engineer Award and inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame. Julie serves on the board of AIM Global, the automatic identification and mobility trade association, the Engineering Dean's Council at Texas Tech University, the Dallas Museum of Art and the National Council of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. She has completed six-year tenure as a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Board of Directors. She has served on the Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas Board of Trustees, American Electronics Association Board of Directors and the board of the Dallas Arboretum.
