Dr. Robert Mehrabian
Executive Chairman
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated
Director since 1999
Robert Mehrabian is an Armenian-American materials scientist who assumed the role of Executive Chairman of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (TDY), on January 1, 2024. He was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer since 2000 except for a brief period, January 1, 2019 to October 15, 2021, when he also assumed the position of Executive Chairman. He was President and Chief Executive Officer from 1999 to 2000. Mehrabian held various Senior Executive positions at Allegheny Teledyne Incorporated (ATI) starting in July 1997, including President of the Aerospace and Defense Segment which was spun-off in November 1999 and listed on the NYSE as TDY. Over the past 26 years, TDY's revenue from continuing operations and market capitalization have grown over 8x and 100x to approximately $6B and $25B, respectively. Previously he spent 30 years in Academia starting as a young professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), followed by Engineering Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, and later as Dean of the College of Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and ending as President of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) (1990-1997). During his tenure at CMU, he led the Regional Economic Revitalization Initiative in Southwestern, PA and the founding of the Pittsburgh Technology Center.
Mehrabian also spent four years in the Senior Executive Service in the U.S. Department of Commerce where he initiated numerous government/industry programs that became models for such cooperative efforts. These included computerization of metal and ceramic alloy phase diagrams in the early 1980s. During his UCSB and CMU tenures, he spun-off a number of high technology companies. He has also served on the board of directors of several public companies, including Mellon Financial Corporation and its successor, Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and PPG Industries, Inc.
Mehrabian holds bachelor and Doctor of Science degrees from the MIT. He has eight U.S. and more than 40 foreign patents. He has authored 139 technical papers and edited six books in the field of materials science and engineering. His awards include election to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a Fellow and distinguished Life Member of the American Society of Metals International (ASM), the Henry Marion Howe Medal of the ASM, and a Fellow and Leadership Award recipient of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS). His honorary degrees include Sc.D. from CMU and L.H.D. from Chatham College. In 2012, he was honored by the naming of the Robert Mehrabian Collaborative Innovation Center and building at CMU. In 2025, UCSB named its College of Engineering the Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering.
