(September 28, 2005) Austin, Texas &#8212 Freescale Semiconductor has appointed Sam Coursen as its new VP and CIO, overseeing Freescale’s strategic, operational, and financial information technology (IT) infrastructure. Formerly CIO of NCR Corp. (NCR) for the past 7 years, Coursen presided over a significant re-engineering of IT at the company. He led the IT governance process to drive strategic and tactical alignment between IT and business initiatives within the company. He also helped NCR achieve world-class IT cost efficiency via process standardization, consolidation, centralization, and outsourcing. “Sam has a proven track record of success at getting greater value out of IT investment,” states Jan Harris, Freescale’s senior VP of business operations. “He has the right background to drive alignment between Freescale’s IT and business strategies and help streamline our global operations.”