NXP announces its new Leadership Team

NXP Semiconductors N.V. has announced changes to the senior leadership team designed to better align with the company’s renewed focus and growth strategy. Kurt Sievers, Executive Vice-President & General Manager of NXP’s automotive business, has been promoted to president of NXP Semiconductors. Under the new structure, Kurt Sievers will oversee all of NXP’s business lines.

Rick Clemmer, Chief Executive Officer, NXP, says, “This new structure follows the natural evolution of our strategy, as we strengthen our focus on secure connected devices through the automotive and industrial & IoT businesses while also participating in the mobile and communications infrastructure markets. As technological change accelerates, all our focus verticals require edge to node platforms and solutions that facilitate data analytics, machine learning and advanced services. By simplifying our organization, we will be better able to fully leverage our scale, facilitate cross-company collaboration and reduce overhead, all of which will help us unlock the full profitable growth potential of our business.”

Ruediger (Rudy) Stroh has decided to pursue his next chapter outside the company, effective September 30, 2018, after a successful nine-year career during which he served as Executive Vice-President and General Manager of NXP’s security & connectivity business.

Rick Clemmer, Chief Executive Officer, NXP Semiconductors, says, “On behalf NXP’s board of directors, I want to thank Rudy for the passion, energy and vision he brought to the company, and wish him all the best in the future. Under his talented leadership, NXP brought mobile wallets into the hands of billions of consumers, created security solutions for billions of payment and identity credentials and developed the broadest portfolio of fit-for-purpose IoT and security solutions that pave the way for revolutionary machine learning inferencing in edge computing. I believe the company is well positioned to build on Rudy’s record of success and continue to deliver solid results. To ensure the success of this change, Rudy will be working closely with Kurt and me during a transition period.”

Jennifer Wuamett, Deputy General Counsel and Chief IP Officer, will succeed Guido Dierick as Executive Vice-President and General Counsel of NXP Semiconductors, effective immediately. Guido Dierick retires as General Counsel but remains Country Manager of NXP Semiconductors Netherlands.

Rick Clemmer says, “Jennifer’s unique mix of understanding technology and expertise in intellectual property, corporate governance and legal matters make her ideally suited to lead NXP’s legal & IP teams, as she did for Freescale Semiconductor. Jennifer is an industry-recognized intellectual property expert and an outstanding leader; in an expanded role, her talent will continue to be a great asset for our company.”

Guido Dierick retires from his general counsel position after an exceptional 36-year career in the electronics industry.

Rick Clemmer says, “Guido’s achievements are too many to recount and he has been my trusted partner throughout NXP’s history. I sincerely thank Guido for his outstanding guidance, insights and leadership across all these years; wish him well in his personal pursuits of charitable causes and am glad he continues to contribute to our success as Country Manager of NXP Netherlands.”