Knowles appoints new board member

Business Wire

ITASCA - Knowles Corp. appointed Dr. Cheryl Shavers to the board of directors.

Her appointment expands the Board to nine directors, eight of whom are independent.

Shavers currently serves as chief executive officer of Global Smarts, an advisory services and strategy firm which she founded in 2001. She consults small and established businesses as well as government agencies on managing growth opportunities and the innovative process. Between 1999 and 2001, Shavers served as the undersecretary of commerce for technology at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where she oversaw the Office of Technology Policy and the Technology Administration,

She also oversaw the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Technical Information Service and the Office of Space Commercialization. Shavers was one of the highest-ranking technologists in the Clinton Administration at the time. Prior to joining the Clinton administration, she held a variety of roles at Intel Corporation and Hewlett-Packard, including director of Emerging Technologies and sector manager of the Microprocessor Products Group for Intel. Dr. Shavers also is a director of Rockwell Collins.

Shavers holds a doctorate in Solid State Chemistry and a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Arizona State University.