Dr. Maria Marced
Dr. Maria Marced
President, TSMC Europe
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC Europe B.V.)
Dr. Marced is responsible for driving the development, strategy and management of TSMC’s business in Europe.
Before joining TSMC she was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Sales and Marketing at NXP/Philips. She also served as Philips’ General Manager of The Connected Multimedia Solutions Business Unit, overseeing semiconductor solutions for Connected Consumer applications.
Dr. Marced spent 19 years with Intel before that, rising to become Vice President and General Manager responsible for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She holds a Ph.D. in telecommunications engineering from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.
Daniel Artusi
Daniel Artusi
Board Member & Semiconductor Executive
Daniel A. (Dan) Artusi is an experienced semiconductor executive and board member who, from 2015 to 2018, served as Vice President in the Client Computing Group and General Manager for the connected home division at Intel Corporation.
A 30-year veteran of the semiconductor and communications industries, Artusi joined Intel in 2015 with the acquisition of Lantiq Deutschland GmbH, where he had been chief executive officer since 2012. He also spent six years as an operating executive at Golden Gate Capital, focusing on semiconductor and communications investment opportunities. Earlier in his career, Artusi served as president and CEO of Conextant Systems Inc.; as chairman and CEO of Coldwatt Inc.; and as CEO, president and chief operating officer at Silicon Laboratories Inc. He was also a member of the board of directors at all four technology companies. Artusi started his career in 1977 at Motorola Inc. and subsequently spent 24 years with the company, culminating in his role as corporate vice president and general manager of the Networking and Computing Systems Group.
Artusi attended the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires in Argentina. He sits on the Engineering Advisory Board of the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been granted multiple U.S. patents in the field of power conversion and has published more than 50 articles and papers on topics related to power semiconductors, microcontrollers, radio frequency technology and mixed-signal integrated circuits. He is a former member of the boards of directors at Atheros Communications Inc. (later acquired by Qualcomm Inc.), Energy Micro AS, Micrel Inc., Powerwave Technologies Inc.,
Scintera Networks Inc. and Ubiquiti Networks.
Dr. Jalal Bagherli, Ph.D.
Dr. Jalal Bagherli, Ph.D.
Board Member & Semiconductor Executive
Dialog Semiconductor
Dr. Jalal Bagherli joined Dialog Semiconductor in September 2005 as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining Dialog Semiconductor, he was Vice President & General Manager for the Mobile Multimedia business unit for Broadcom Corporation and the CEO of Alphamosaic. Dr Bagherli has extensive experience of the semiconductor industry with a wealth of knowledge about the Far Eastern, European and North American markets, gained through his previous professional and executive positions with Texas Instruments and Sony.
Angelique van der Burg
Angelique van der Burg
Executive Vice President, Chief Procurement Officer
Infineon Technologies
Angelique is Executive Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer for Infineon since September 2019. She is leading the global procurement organization for Infineon based in Munich. In her career, she has led global procurement and operations organizations for different companies in the value chain including Philips, NXP, KPN. She is a global citizen, having lived in 6 countries on 3 continents.
Angelique is recognized by German Handelsblatt in 2021 as one of Germany´s 100 most innovative female leaders who have the courage to lead change. She is a driver of CO2 neutrality and aims to create an inclusive and diverse workspace.
She holds a Master in Science from University of Technology of Eindhoven and Master of Business Administration from Rotterdam School of Management.
Gary Campbell
Gary Campbell
SVP, Central Engineering
Arm, Inc.
Gary is the Senior Vice President of Arm’s Central Engineering team, comprising CPU, GPU, CE Operations, Central Technology, Systems, Productivity Engineering and Open Source Software teams. Previous to this Gary was Vice President of Engineering for Arm’s CPU and Media Engineering teams. Gary joined Arm in 1998 as a CPU designer, and prior to this he started his career at Inmos working as a design engineer on SRAM and graphics development.
Alessandro Cremonesi
Alessandro Cremonesi
EVP, Chief Innovation Officer
STMicroelectronics
Alessandro Cremonesi is STMicroelectronics’ Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer and General Manager of STMicroelectronics’ System Research and Applications (SRA) Group. He has managed the SRA group since 2013 and added the Innovation Office to his mandate in early 2020. Cremonesi’s responsibilities span from global innovation coordination to corporate advanced R&D to system-solutions support for ST customers.
Cremonesi joined STMicroelectronics in 1984 after conducting research in opto- electronics at University of Pavia, Italy. He has served in managerial roles with both Strategic Marketing and R&D responsibilities across domains from telecommunications to audio/video digital-signal processing and multimedia applications. He has been a key contributor to ST’s extensive efforts and strategy in IoT and Artificial Intelligence and, more recently, has led the creation of strategic initiatives to increase ST’s innovation capability.
Cremonesi advises several industrial and academic bodies. He is a member of an expert group defining the strategy for Artificial Intelligence for the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. He has authored several technical papers and patents and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at IMEC.
Guillaume D'Eyssautier
Guillaume D’Eyssautier
Director
CoreNetiX GmbH
Guillaume d’Eyssautier career has spanned over the past 30 years in the semiconductor industry, including management positions in both Europe and the USA. Most recently he was CEO of DelfMEMS. Prior to that, he was CEO of ADD semiconductor which he sold to Atmel in October 2011. Prior to ADD he was CEO of picoChip, sold to Mindspeed. Prior to that, he served as Senior VP-GM at Cadence Design Systems, VP-GM EMEA for IBM Technology and hold executive and management positions at Rockwell Semiconductor, GEC-Plessey Semiconductor, Matra Harris Semiconductors and Philips Semiconductors. Guillaume is also the Chairman of Surecore (www.sure-core.com) and holds a MSc in Material Science and an MBA from INSEAD.
Maurice Geraets
Maurice Geraets
Managing Director NXP Netherlands & VP Innovation
NXP Semiconductors N.V.
Managing Director at NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V. and Vice President Innovation. Maurice has 25 years of experience in the IT and electronics industry and works at NXP Semiconductors since 2002. In his current position he focuses on disruptive innovations for ‘secure connections for a smarter world’. This concerns e.g. intelligent transport systems (ITS) and automated driving. Next to his role at NXP, Maurice is active in the governance of the 1 billion Euro Dutch SmartwayZ program, is board member of several associations on automotive and mobility, is member of the High Level ITS Advisory Group to the European Commission and is member of the management committee of the European public private partnership AENEAS.
Dr. Udo-Martin Gomez
Dr. Udo-Martin Gomez
EVP, Engineering Sensors
Robert Bosch GmbH
Since January 2013, Dr. Udo Gómez is Chief Technical Officer of Bosch Sensortec GmbH – a fully-owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH. He is responsible for research and development of microelectro- mechanical sensors (MEMS) for consumer electronics, smartphones, security systems, industrial technology and logistics.
Dr. Gómez was born in Aalen, Germany. He studied physics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. After graduation in 1994, he completed a doctorate in physics in 1997. From 1998 to 1999, he worked as post doctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California, USA).
Dr. Gómez began his career at Robert Bosch GmbH in 1999 at Corporate Sector Research and Advanced Engineering as research engineer in the area of microsystems technology.
In 2003, he joined the Automotive Electronics Division of Robert Bosch GmbH, where he was given the overall responsibility for the development of a new MEMS-based inertial sensor cluster for ESP applications.
Since 2006, Dr. Gómez worked in various management positions at Automotive Electronics, where he was responsible for Advanced Engineering of MEMS Sensors and held the position as Chief Expert for MEMS sensor technology.
Before joining Bosch Sensortec GmbH in January 2013, he was part of the office of the Board of Management (2010 – 2012) and was appointed Office Director for the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Management at Robert Bosch GmbH.
Since 2014, Dr. Gómez is Deputy Chairman of the Board of VDE/VDI-Society Microelectronics, Microsystems and Precision Engineering (GMM).
Dr. Georges Karam
Dr. Georges Karam
President & CEO
Sequans Communications S.A.
Dr. Georges Karam is President and chief executive officer of Sequans Communications. Before founding Sequans Communications, Georges Karam was vice president of cable access for Juniper Networks, running the cable engineering and marketing departments and managing the cable sales launch in EMEA. He joined Juniper Networks when the company acquired Pacific Broadband Communications (PBC), where he was vice president of engineering and general manager for Europe. At PBC he was the first key executive to join the company and was instrumental to success. Georges has served in a variety of senior management positions at Alcatel, SAGEM and Philips. He is a senior member of IEEE, has authored numerous technical and scientific papers, and holds several patents in digital communications.
Gennady Krasnikov
Gennady Krasnikov
CEO
Molecular Electronic Research Institute (MERI)
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a head of Molecular Electronics Research Institute Gennady Krasnikov is a world-renowned scientist in the field of semiconductor physics, semiconductor devices, VLSI technology development and manufacturing.
Since graduating from National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET) in 1981 Gennady Krasnikov successfully combines scientific and commercial work. Starting his activity as an engineer in Molecular Electronics Research Institute and Mikron Fab he was appointed Director General of the company in early 1991 and now retains position at the Research Institute cooperating with world famous scientific centers, technical universities and design labs: IMEC, CEA-Leti, Technische Universiteit Delft, Ecole Speciale de Lausanne, Aselta, Leland Stanford Junior University, Mapper Lithography and others.
Mr. Krasnikov’s extensive experience of the semiconductor technology and industry granted him a number of honored national titles: Member of the State Presidential Council on science, technology and education of Russia, Head of the Interdepartmental Council of the leading designers of Russia, Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Physical and Chemical Fundamentals of Semiconductor Materials”, member of the Supervisory Board of the Novosibirsk National Research University and the National Research University of Electronic Technology, Honorary Doctor of the St. Petersburg National Research Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Scientific Advisory Council of Nonprofit Organization the Foundation for the Development of the Center for Elaboration and Commercialization of New Technologies.
Gennady Krasnikov is author and co-author of more than 360 scientific publications, 4 scientific monographs and holds more than 40 author’s certificates and patents. He was awarded multiple honorable national and international awards such as the “Order of Honor” (in 1999), the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” (in 2008), the “Order of Friendship” (in 2014), the State Prize of the Russian Federation (in 2014) and with two Russian Federation government prizes in science and technology (in 1999, 2009), UNESCO medal for contributions to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies (in 2016).
Svein-Egil Nielsen
Svein-Egil Nielsen
CTO
Nordic Semiconductor ASA
Svein-Egil Nielsen is the Chief Technology Officer of Nordic Semiconductor. Mr. Nielsen holds MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and Bachelor of Engineering honors degree in Computer and Electronics Systems from University of Strathclyde.
He joined Nordic in 2001 as Director of Sales and Marketing. He also held a position as R&D director from 2005 to 2006 and Director of Emerging Technologies and Strategic Partnerships from 2010 to 2012.
Additionally, he served Innovation Norway as their Director of San Francisco and Houston offices where he was in charge of promoting Norwegian technology from 2007 to 2010. Prior to Nordic, he worked for Boston Consulting Group as a consultant.
Thomas Stockmeier
Thomas Stockmeier
Chief Technology Officer
ams OSARM Group
Thomas Stockmeier is the Chief Technology Officer of ams OSRAM AG. He joined the company in 2013 and held positions as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Industrial, Medical and automotive. His career spans three decades in the semiconductor and electronics industry, in various management positions in Germany and abroad in the areas of semiconductors and microelectronics, particularly in the fields of research and development, production, supply chain, procurement, quality, environmental protection, health and safety, IT, and various business units. He has in-depth knowledge of the consumer, computing, medical technology, industrial automation, and automotive market segments Thomas held senior management
positions in research, development and management during his 13-year tenure with ABB, where he worked in Switzerland and in the USA. He also spent 13 years with SEMIKRON in Germany, where he was a Member of the Management Board and CTO responsible for R&D, Production, and Quality.
As of December 2020, Thomas Stockmeier is also the Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of OSRAM Licht AG, and Chairperson of the Supervisory Board, OSRAM GmbH. Thomas earned a Diploma Degree in Material Science and a Doctorate Degree in Engineering
both from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is a German citizen.
Dr. Verena Vescoli
Dr. Verena Vescoli
Chief Technology Officer
LEM International
Dr. Verena Vescoli is Chief Technology Officer LEM International SA (SIX: LEHN) and member of the company Executive Committee.
She previously worked at ams AG in several roles, notably as Senior Vice President R&D, where she was responsible for R&D/engineering and, before that, as senior manager for Device and Systems, responsible for leading the development and deployment of CMOS platform based devices for multiple use in the company. Before ams AG, she held a number of positions at AVL, including leadership roles in application engineering, R&D, software engineering, product management and customer engagement.
Next to her role at LEM, Verena is active as a University lecturer and in multiple coaching and talent development programs. She has been granted multiple patents and has published more than 40 articles and papers on topics related to optoelectronics, power semiconductors and emission measurement technology.
She holds a Ph.D. in solid state physics from the ETH Zürich, Switzerland.