Technology >> CEO Interviews >> November 27, 2000
FREDERICK R. HUME joined Data I/O Corporation as President and Chief
Executive Officer in February 1999. Prior to that, he was Vice President
and General Manager with Keithley Instruments in Cleveland, OH. In a
decade at Keithley, Mr. Hume helped double sales of the Instrument
Division and helped increase market capitalization of the firm to $120
million. He also formed strategic alliances with IBM to develop the
Quantox product line for semiconductor process characterization, and
opened offices in Tokyo, Japan and Bejing, China. Previous to Keithley,
Mr. Hume was with Seattle-based John Fluke Manufacturing. He joined
Fluke in 1972, and moved quickly from Product Manager to Vice President
of Technology and Planning and to Group Vice President for Manufacturing
and R&D. His accomplishments at Fluke included the development and
introduction of several successful industrial product lines. Profile
Mr. Hume: Data I/O was founded in 1972 by Grant Record and Milt
Zeutschel to develop devices that would program EPROM '
