Phil Hester is Senior VP and President of R&D at National Instruments. This means he has to offer strategic guidance to almost 2,000 global hardware and software development employees. By doing this, he helps advance the company’s capacity of delivering innovative products and services. Hester is also in charge of the Quality organization which ensures global quality and customer satisfaction for NI products. Hester boasts three decades of expertise in technology, having held a variety of top engineering and managerial positions. He has been with the company since 2009.