Skyworks Appoints Liam Griffin As CEO; Aldrich To Become Executive Chairman

(RTTNews) - Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (SWKS) announced its board has appointed Liam Griffin as CEO. Griffin was also elected to the board, effective May 11, 2016. David Aldrich, Skyworks' current CEO, will assume the newly established role of executive chairman.

Griffin joined Skyworks in August 2001 as head of sales and marketing. In 2011, he was promoted to executive vice president and in May 2014 was named company president. Before joining Skyworks, Griffin was the vice president of worldwide sales at Dover and held product management and process engineering positions at AT&T's Microelectronics and Network Systems' businesses.