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Robert Mehrabian is Executive Chairman of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, with primary responsibility to manage the affairs of the Board and to manage and direct mergers and acquisition activities, strategic planning, technology and margin expansion initiatives of Teledyne.

He was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer from October 15, 2021 to December 31, 2023. Prior to that he was Teledyne's Executive Chairman starting January 1, 2019, and before that Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer starting in 2000 (and President and Chief Executive Officer since Teledyne's formation in 1999).

He is a member of The National Academy of Engineering. Effective December 16, 2025, Teledyne and Dr. Mehrabian entered into a Ninth Amended and Restated Employment Agreement with a term continuing through December 31, 2028, setting base salary at $1,300,000 effective January 1, 2026.

Roles

Teledyne Technologies Inc.

Executive Chairman · Current role

1999–present

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer · From October 15, 2021 to December 31, 2023.

2021-2023

Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (ATI)

President and Chief Executive Officer, Aerospace and Electronics segment · Since July 1999; had served ATI in various senior executive capacities since July 1997, prior to the November 1999 spin-off of Teledyne.

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Carnegie Mellon University

President · Before joining ATI.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Professor · Began his roughly 30-year academic career as a young professor at MIT.

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Engineering Professor

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University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Dean of the College of Engineering · In 2025, UCSB named its College of Engineering the Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

Senior Executive Service · Spent four years in the Senior Executive Service, initiating numerous government/industry programs that became models for cooperative efforts, including early computerization of metallurgical phase diagrams.

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