Leonce John "L. J." Sevin, Jr. (August 28, 1930 - September 12, 2015) was described by a Dallas newspaper, when he died, as "

Mostek Mostek was a semiconductor integrated circuit manufacturer, founded in 1969 by L. J. Sevin, Louay E. Sharif, Richard L. Petritz and other ex-employees of Texas Instruments. At its peak in the late 1970s, Mostek held an 85% market share of the d ...

co-founder,

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." He was also co-founder of

Sevin Rosen Funds Sevin Rosen Funds (SRF) is a Texas-based venture capital firm credited with pioneering the personal computing revolution in the 1980s and also venture investing in Dallas. It was established in 1981 by L. J. Sevin, a former Texas Instruments engi ...

Career

Sevin co-founded

when, in 1969, he left

Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globall ...

; he was the company's CEO for ten years. With

Benjamin M. Rosen Benjamin "Ben" M. Rosen (born March 11, 1933) is the former chairman and former acting chief executive officer of Compaq and a co-founder of Sevin Rosen Funds. Early life Rosen was born to a Jewish family in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 11, 1 ...

, he co-founded

in 1981.

Service

He served on the board at * Institute of Technology at Southern Methodist University, * the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, * the Bulova Watch Company and * the Trade Policy Committee of the Semiconductor Industry Association. * Dallas Opera Board of Directors

Early life

He was born to Leonce John Sevin, Sr. and Pauline Perkins Sevin in

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. He fought in the

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and, with funding from the

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, attended and graduated from

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, with a Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering. In 1965, while working for TI, he wrote a book, "Field Effect Transistors" that was translated into seven languages.

Family

When Sevin died, his family included wife Jo Danna Sevin, daughters Christine Sevin Burke and Paula Sevin Webster Hayes, son Gordon Sevin, two grandchildren and a great-grandchild. In 1982 daughter Joana Sevin "died in an automobile accident."

References

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