Dave Pahl Vice President and Head of Investor Relations, Texas Instruments Dave Pahl is vice president and head of Investor Relations, where he oversees communications with TI’s investor community. Previously, he had served as a director in the department. Pahl has over 25 years of TI experience, beginning his career as an applications engineer. He then worked in sales and sales management in Silicon Valley for eight years. He returned to Dallas as a marketing manager and then moved to Houston as a program manager. There he managed the development of more than a dozen new products, with teams based in Houston, Dallas, Tokyo and Bangalore. Later, he served as business manager of several product lines in what is now TI's Embedded Processing segment. Pahl holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Austin.