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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Tyco International Ltd.
Edward D. Breen is chairman and chief executive officer of Tyco International Ltd., a global, diversified company that provides vital products and services to customers in five business segments: Fire & Security, Electronics, Healthcare, Engineered Products & Services, and Plastics & Adhesives. With 2004 revenue of $40 billion, Tyco employs 260,000 people worldwide.
Breen joined Tyco in July 2002 after serving as president and chief operating officer of Motorola, Inc. He began his career at Motorola in January 2000 when General Instrument Corporation, where he had served as chairman, president and CEO, merged with Motorola. After the merger, Breen became the executive vice president of Motorola and president of Motorola's Broadband Communications Sector (BCS), where he succeeded in integrating the two companies' cable businesses in three months. Subsequently, he headed the Networks Sector, which includes Global Telecom Solutions, Commercial, Government and Industrial Solutions, and BCS. Breen was named Motorola president and chief operating officer-elect in October 2001 and assumed the role as president and COO on January 1, 2002.
As chairman and CEO of General Instrument, Breen is credited with making the cable equipment-manufacturer the leader in the industry, with its cutting-edge digital set-top boxes and digital programming distribution services. Between 1994 and 1997, Breen was president of the Broadband Networks Group for General Instrument, president of Eastern Operations for the Communications Division and served as executive vice president of Terrestrial Systems, where he directed the division's terrestrial products worldwide and managed the division's addressable, distribution and telephony strategic business units.
From 1988 to 1994, as senior vice president of sales, Breen was responsible for the terrestrial products worldwide sales organization. This included overseeing sales personnel and activities in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Breen joined General Instrument in 1978.
In December 1999, Breen was ranked one of the top fifteen of CableFAX Magazine's 100 most influential people in cable. In 1998, Breen won the National Cable Television Association's Vanguard Award for high achievers in cable. He is a director of McLeodUSA.
Breen is a graduate of Grove City College, North Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Economics.
He is married with three children and lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
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