LED chip maker Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C., today announced that John T. Kurtzweil will join the company as executive vice president and chief financial officer, as of Sept. 29. Kurtzweil brings with him over 25 years of corporate financial management experience, and he served most recently as senior vice president and CFO of Cirrus Logic Inc., an Austin, Texas-based supplier of analog, mixed-signal and digital processing solutions for audio and industrial product applications. He previously served as senior vice president and CFO of semiconductor supplier ON Semiconductor and of disk drive component manufacturer Read-Rite Corp.