Fairchild Semiconductor Appoints Terry Klebe to Board of Directors

Fairchild today announced the appointment of Terry A. Klebe to the company's board of directors. Klebe was senior vice president and chief financial officer of Cooper Industries plc, a multinational industrial manufacturing company with 2010 revenues of $5.1 billion, from 2002 until announcing his retirement in February 2010. He continued to serve as vice chairman at Cooper through his retirement in April 2011. As CFO Klebe was the number two executive at the company, acting in a chief operating officer role as well as managing the company's finance, tax, internal audit, investor relations, business systems and financial shared services functions. Prior to becoming CFO Klebe held senior executive management roles at Cooper in information technology, operations and finance, and before that was a partner with Ernst & Young LLP.