After appointing Jean-Marc Chery as the new President & CEO , STMicro’s Supervisory Board has recently approved the establishment of a newly formed Executive Committee to be led by Chery as its Chairman.
Chery has held this position since May 31st, 2018. Chery began his career in the Quality organization of Matra, the French engineering group. In 1986, he joined Thomson Semiconductors, which subsequently became ST, and held various management positions in product planning and manufacturing, rising to lead ST’s wafer fabs in Tours-France, and later in Rousset-France.
In 2005, Chery led the company wide 6-inch wafer-production restructuring program before taking charge of ST’s Front-End Manufacturing operations in Asia Pacific. In 2008, he was promoted to the Chief Technology Officer and assumed additional responsibilities for Manufacturing and Quality (2011) and the Digital Product Sector (2012).
In 2014, Chery was appointed as ST’s Chief Operating Officer responsible for Technology and Manufacturing operations. In July 2017, Chery was appointed as the Deputy CEO with overall responsibility for Technology and Manufacturing as well as for Sales and Marketing operations.
Chery currently chairs the board of directors of STMicro, ST’s manufacturing joint venture in China, and holds a board membership at the European microelectronics R&D program AENEAS.
“ST’s new Executive Committee is a team of strong and experienced semiconductor industry leaders. Our priority is to deliver on our 2018 business and financial objectives and continue our path of sustainable and profitable growth. Customers choose ST because we can bring them innovation in technology and products. We will keep pushing in this direction, with a focus on fast time-to-market and strong execution, to create value for customers and for all our stakeholders”, said the newly appointed President & CEO.
The other members of ST’s newly appointed Executive Committee are:
- Orio Bellezza, President, Technology, Manufacturing and Quality
- Marco Cassis, President, Sales, Marketing, Communications and Strategy Development
- Claude Dardanne, President, Microcontrollers and Digital ICs Group
- Lorenzo Grandi, President, Finance, Infrastructure and Services and Chief Financial Officer
- Marco Monti, President, Automotive and Discrete Group
- Georges Penalver, President, Human Resources and Corporate Social Responsibility
- Steven Rose, President, Legal Counsel
- Benedetto Vigna, President, Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group
