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Edwin Roks

  • President & CEO; director, TTMI since 2025-09src

Former Teledyne CEO; TTM President & CEO since September 2025

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Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
Delivers guidance—no promises on the record yet
Answers the question—no call reviewed yet
Capital allocation—company not reviewed yet
Pay design67operating income, margin, individual, revenue, ebitda, relative tsr, time only · 99.1% for · 2.89% of net income
Skin in the game—no holding or price on file
Age
61src
In the role
1 yr
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
—
Dodges / 100 answers
—
Airtime on calls
—
Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Watch 4

  • He was Teledyne CEO for only 16 months. The Executive Chairman kept M&A and strategy throughout, and Teledyne's filing called his April 2025 exit a retirement. Four months later he joined TTMsrc
  • Close Teledyne ties on the board that hired him: the Chair was his boss at Teledyne DALSA and the audit chair was Teledyne's Controllersrc
  • First big capital decision: a $1.1bn all-cash purchase of Epiq Solutions, agreed 2026-08-15. Against that, FY2025 net income was $177.4msrc
  • PRUs pay mainly on annual revenue and adjusted EBITDA (80%), with relative TSR at 20%. The bonus pays 70% on operating income. No return-on-capital measure anywheresrc

In their favour 2

  • Bought about $1.1m of stock in the open market in August 2026, the only open-market purchase on his TTM Form 4ssrc
  • Independent Chair and separate CEO are required by the governance guidelines. Hedging and pledging are banned, and the CEO must hold 5x salary within five yearssrc

Career

  1. 2025 – now
    TTM Technologiessrc
    President & CEO; director
    Effective 2025-09-02
  2. 2025 – 2025
    Teledyne Technologiessrc
    Strategic advisor to the Executive Chairman
    2025-04-28 to 2025-08-31, after retiring as CEO
  3. 2024 – 2025
    Teledyne Technologiessrc
    Chief Executive Officer
    2024-01-01 to 2025-04-28. Robert Mehrabian stayed on as Executive Chairman, keeping primary responsibility for M&A, strategic planning, technology and margin expansion
  4. 2021 – 2024
    Teledyne Technologiessrc
    Executive Vice President; President, Digital Imaging Segment (Teledyne's largest segment)
  5. 2017 – 2021
    Teledyne Technologiessrc
    Vice President; Group President, Teledyne Digital Imaging, Teledyne DALSA and Teledyne e2v
    From March 2017, when Teledyne bought e2v
  6. 2015 – 2017
    Teledyne DALSA, Inc.src
    President (and Vice President of Teledyne)
    President from 2015-10-06. Named COO of Teledyne DALSA effective 2015-07-01, reporting to its then President Rex Geveden (WS-bw-2015)
  7. 2014 – 2015
    Teledyne Technologiessrc
    Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
    2014-01-02 to 2015-10-06
  8. 2010 – 2014
    DALSA Corporation / Teledyne DALSA, Inc.src
    Executive Vice President & General Manager, professional imaging division
    Joined Teledyne when it acquired DALSA in 2011. Before April 2010 he was VP & GM of DALSA's professional imaging and CMOS integrated circuits groups (dates not in the 10-K)
  9. 2005 – 2010
    DALSA Corporationsrc
    General Manager, CMOS IC business unit; from April 2007 General Manager, IC Group
    Aggregator summary only. The FY2014 Teledyne 10-K confirms he was VP & GM of DALSA's professional imaging and CMOS integrated circuits groups before April 2010, without dates
  10. 1989 – 2005
    Philips Research Laboratories; Philips imaging businesssrc
    Researcher, later CTO of Philips Polymer Vision and R&D Director of the Philips Imaging Business Line
    Aggregator summary only; the end year is inferred from the same summary's DALSA start in 2005. It also says he lectured as an officer at the Royal Military Academy of the Netherlands before 1989. Not located in any primary document

Not located: Pre-2010 career (Philips, early DALSA roles, military academy lecturing) rests only on an aggregator summary; no dates located in a primary document. Teledyne proxies before 2024 do not carry his bio (he was not a named executive)

Achievements

  • Ran Teledyne as CEO from January 2024 to April 2025, after running its largest segment, Digital Imaging, from 2021src
  • Built his career in image sensors: DALSA's professional imaging and CMOS businesses, then Teledyne DALSA and e2v after Teledyne bought themsrc
  • Agreed the $1.1bn cash purchase of Epiq Solutions on 2026-08-15, less than a year into the jobsrc
  • Bought 10,000 TTM shares in the open market on 2026-08-25 at about $111.77, roughly $1.1msrc
  • Re-elected director on 2026-05-07 with 85.4m votes for and 1.2m againstsrc

Education

  • University of Twente, PhD Electronics, semiconductor physicssrc
  • Eindhoven University of Technology, MSc Electrical engineeringsrc
  • Breda University of Technology, BScsrc

Background

  • Family The 2026 proxy states there are no family relationships among directors, nominees or executive officers; the 2025 appointment 8-K says the same for himsrc
  • Other TTM's Chair since 2021, Rex Geveden, ran Teledyne DALSA in 2014-2016; Roks reported to him as DALSA COO in 2015 and then succeeded him as DALSA Presidentsrc
  • Other TTM's audit committee chair Wajid Ali was CFO of DALSA before Teledyne bought it and then Teledyne's Vice President and Controllersrc
  • Other He worked for Teledyne DALSA B.V. in the Netherlands before 2024 and was in its multi-employer metal-industry pension plan. Teledyne paid his multi-country tax preparationsrc
  • Other Offer letter: $1.0m salary, 125% target bonus, sign-on RSUs worth about $1.275m and PRUs worth about $2.975m, and the standard change-in-control severance agreementsrc

The promise ledger

No promise on the record yet: the research routine has not scored this company's guidance.

Sources

19
  1. Filing TTM Technologies DEF 14A (accession 0001193125-26-115993) · 2026-03-19
  2. Filing TTM Technologies 8-K Item 5.02, appointment of Edwin Roks as President & CEO (0001193125-25-180363) · 2025-08-14
  3. Filing TTM Technologies 8-K Item 5.02, Edman retirement notice (0001193125-25-169326) · 2025-07-30
  4. Filing TTM Technologies 8-K Items 5.02/5.07, 2026 annual meeting results (0001193125-26-214668) · 2026-05-08
  5. Filing TTM Technologies 8-K Item 1.01, agreement to buy Epiq Solutions (0001193125-26-353148) · 2026-08-17
  6. Filing SEC XBRL companyconcept us-gaap/NetIncomeLoss, CIK 1116942 (FY2025 10-K, 0001193125-26-051976) · 2026-02-17
  7. Filing Form 4, Edwin Roks (reporting CIK 1705520), sign-on RSU grant of 2025-09-02 (0000950170-25-112977) · 2025-09-04
  8. Filing Form 4, Edwin Roks, RSU grant of 2026-06-24 (0001193125-26-284417) · 2026-06-26
  9. Filing Form 4, Edwin Roks, open-market purchase of 2026-08-25 (0001193125-26-365628) · 2026-08-25
  10. Filing Form 4, Edwin Roks, tax withholding on the 2026-09-02 RSU vesting (0001193125-26-382378) · 2026-09-03
  11. Filing Teledyne Technologies 8-K Item 5.02, Roks to become CEO effective 2024-01-01 (0001094285-23-000125) · 2023-10-25
  12. Filing Teledyne Technologies 8-K Item 5.02, Roks retires as CEO (0001094285-25-000108) · 2025-04-28
  13. Filing Teledyne Technologies DEF 14A (0001193125-25-054478) · 2025-03-14
  14. Filing Teledyne Technologies 10-K for FY2014, executive officers (0001094285-15-000037) · 2015-02-26
  15. Filing Teledyne Technologies 10-K for FY2016, executive officers (0001094285-17-000031) · 2017-03-02
  16. Filing Teledyne Technologies 10-K for FY2017, executive officers (0001094285-18-000053) · 2018-02-27
  17. Web search result WebSearch: Business Wire, 'Edwin Roks Appointed COO of Teledyne DALSA' (2015-06-16) · 2026-09-24
  18. Web search result WebSearch: Comparably executive profile of Edwin Roks (aggregator summary of his early career) · 2026-09-24
  19. Call transcript TTMI Q3 2025 earnings call (2025-10-29), ROIC.ai; his first call as CEO