Texas Instruments Inc. announced that Mark A. Blinn, president and chief executive officer of Flowserve Corporation, has been elected to TI's board of directors. Mr. Blinn, joined Flowserve, in 2004 as its chief financial officer and assumed responsibility for the company's Latin America operations in November 2007. He became a member of the company's board of directors in August 2009 and was named president and chief executive officer in October of the same year.

Prior to joining Flowserve, Mr. Blinn served as chief financial officer for FedEx Kinko's Office and Print Services Inc., and earlier was a senior financial officer at Centex Corporation.