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Edward D. Breen is chairman and chief executive officer of Tyco International Ltd. Breen has
been chairman and CEO of Tyco since 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 quickly integrating the two
companies' cable businesses. He subsequently headed the company’s Networks Sector.
Breen was named Motorola president and chief operating officer-elect in October 2001, and
assumed the role of president and COO in January 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.
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 originally 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 Comcast Corporation.
Breen is a graduate of Grove City College in Grove City, 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. | 