February 28, 2024, Event of CFA Society New York organized by the Society's Institutional Asset Management Group, chaired by Leo Schmidt
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February 28, 2024, Event of CFA Society New York

organized by the Society's

Institutional Asset Management Group, chaired by Leo Schmidt

 

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Overview

This event will provide attendees with direct access to a senior representative of Texas Instruments Inc. This event will allow attendees to learn about the company and what questions their peers ask with the goal of improving due diligence skills and knowledge specific to this company. The company was chosen as it is a leader in the semiconductor sector and has a track record of long term capital commitments. To initiate the 2024 the Direct Access™ program with a promised focus on exemplary companies, we are very fortunate to be able to start with Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN), a company that has established clear leadership in semiconductors that are essential to a broad range of basic industrial applications as well as to the latest high growth technologies, and that has done so by focusing on long term commitments of capital as well as clear respect for all of the stakeholders on which an enterprise depends.

Agenda

2:55 PM | OPENING REMARKS


3:00 PM | PRESENTATION

Dwight C. Blazin, Portfolio Manager & Senior Technology Analyst, Davis Selected Advisors

Dave Pahl, VP, Investor Relations, Texas Instruments


3:30 PM | Q&A

Organizer

Leo Schmidt, CFA

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Dwight C. Blazin

https://cfany.org/speaker-organizer/dwight-c-blazin/

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Dwight C. Blazin joined Davis Advisors in 1995. He was previously a consultant for IT Consulting and Systems Design. Mr. Blazin received his Ph.D. and M.A. from New York University and his B.A. from Brigham Young University.




Dave Pahl

https://cfany.org/speaker-organizer/dave-pahl/

 

 

Dave Pahl is vice president and head of Investor Relations, where he oversees communications with TI’s investor community. Previously, he had served as a director in the department. Pahl started his career at TI more than 30 years ago as an applications engineer. He then worked in sales and sales management in Silicon Valley for eight years. He returned to Dallas as a marketing manager and then moved to Houston as a program manager. There he managed the development of more than a dozen new products, with teams based in Houston, Dallas, Tokyo and Bangalore.

Later, he served as business manager of several product lines in what is now TI’s Embedded Processing segment. Pahl holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to his role at TI, Pahl serves on the board of governors of the Dallas Symphony Association and previously was co-chair of the Michigan State University College of Engineering Alumni Association Board.




Leo Schmidt, CFA

https://cfany.org/speaker-organizer/leo-schmidt-cfa/


 

Leo Schmidt, CFA, has been an institutional investor for over 20 years. Most recently, he was a Senior Equity Analyst for the Chubb Corporation for 10 years where he was responsible for all analysis on a $2 billion 90 stock portfolio. The Chubb equity portfolio had an outstanding record with over 200 basis points of outperformance versus the S&P 500 on a 10, 5, 3 and 1 year(s) basis. Prior to the Chubb Corporation, he worked at Advent Capital Management where he was a Consumer Analyst for Convertibles Strategies, including Balanced and Arbitrage as well as long-short high yield. He also worked as a Consumer analyst at a $20 billion Nuveen managed accounts fund. He began his investing career at Reich & Tang Capital Management, focused mainly on pension plans and endowments, where he was a generalist. He graduated from Columbia University, Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a double major in Economics and History. He earned an MBA from NYU with a double major in Accounting and Finance. He has served as Chair of CFA Society New York’s Institutional Asset Management interest group since 2016 and was named CFA Society New York’s Volunteer of the Year in 2020. He is married with one child and resides in Manhattan, NY. He is currently starting up a new equity fund with Robert Witkoff, former Chief Investment Officer at Chubb.




 

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