Phillip Doyce Hester (born April 30, 1955) is the senior Vice President of R&D at National Instruments

National Instruments

National Instruments Corporation, or NI , is an American company with over 5,000 employees and direct operations in 41 countries. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it is a producer of automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software...

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Earlier, he had worked as the CTO and Senior Vice President of semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). Phillip Hester resigned from his position of chief technology officer at the company on 11/4/2008.

Hester grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas

Corpus Christi, Texas

Corpus Christi is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas. The county seat of Nueces County, it also extends into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio counties. The MSA population in 2008 was 416,376. The population was 305,215 at the 2010 census making it the...

, and attended Richard King High School

Richard King High School

Richard King High School, or King as it is often referred to, is one of five secondary schools that are part of the Corpus Christi Independent School District in Corpus Christi, Texas . It is the largest high school within the Corpus Christi area....

. Phil holds a Bachelor of Science and a Masters in Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

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Hester spent 23 years at IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

, where he was the lead developer for the RS/6000

RS/6000

RISC System/6000, or RS/6000 for short, is a family of RISC and UNIX based servers, workstations and supercomputers made by IBM in the 1990s. The RS/6000 family replaced the IBM RT computer platform in February 1990 and was the first computer line to see the use of IBM's POWER and PowerPC based...

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He was also a co-founder, and CEO of Newisys

Newisys

Newisys, a Server and Storage company with expertise in glue-chips for Opterons, based in Austin, Texas, was co-founded by Claymon A Cipione and Phil Hester in 2000, and was acquired in 2004 by manufacturer Sanmina-SCI...

, now a Sanmina-SCI Corporation

Sanmina-SCI Corporation

Sanmina-SCI Corporation is a global electronics manufacturing services provider headquartered in San Jose, California that serves original equipment manufacturers in technology-related industries such as communications and computer hardware. Sanmina-SCI has nearly 80 manufacturing sites...

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