Texas CEO Magazine January|February 2014 | Page 6

contributors “Industry leaders predict that the number of Internet-connected devices will surpass 15 billion nodes by 2015 and top 50 billion by 2020.” Tyson Tuttle is the CEO of Silicon Labs and has 61 patents issued or pending in the areas of RF and mixed-signal IC design. “Tomorrow’s top firms will increasingly organize around projects, the way design firms do, and not around fixed roles, titles, and tasks.” Andrew M. Jones, Ph.D. is a consultant, writer, and educator. He recently published The Fifth Age of Work: How Companies Can Become More Innovative in a Cloud Economy and teaches in the McCoy College of Business Administration at Texas State University, San Marcos. “Employees want to have an emotional connection to their work and their company. This connection is what inspires them to put forth the extra efforts to achieve extraordinary results.” Bob Pruitt is President of Cal-Tex Protective Coatings. Cal-Tex has been named as one of the “Best Places to Work” in the San Antonio area for the last four years, received the AACE award for employee communications from the ESOP Association, and has been recognized as an Inc. Magazine “Top Small Company Workplace.”