STMicroelectronics Announces Changes in the Executive Committee

Upon the proposal of Jean-Marc Chery, ST’s president and CEO, the Supervisory Board of STMicroelectronics has approved the following changes to the Executive Committee, entrusted with the management of the company and led by Chery as its chairman. These changes will be effective Jan. 1, 2022.

Marco Cassis will be appointed president, Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group. In addition to his product group role, Cassis will retain a number of corporate responsibilities, namely strategy development, system research and applications and the innovation office.

Remi El-Ouazzane will be appointed president of the Microcontroller and Digital ICs Group, following Claude Dardanne’s decision to retire at the end of the year from this position. El-Ouazzane is joining ST from Intel, where he has been COO of Intel’s Artificial In-telligence Products Group and, more recently, chief strategy officer of the Datacenter Platform Group.

Lorenzo Grandi is confirmed in his CFO role and will be appointed president of finance, purchasing, ERM and resilience.

Jerome Roux, currently EVP, Asia Pacific Region, will be appointed president, sales & mar-keting. His responsibilities will include ST Regions (EMEA, Americas, Asia Pacific and Chi-na), on top of the global key account and demand planning organizations.

The following presidents are confirmed in their current roles:
• Orio Bellezza, president, technology, manufacturing, quality and supply chain.
• Rajita D’Souza, chief human resources officer, president, human resources and corpo-rate social responsibility
• Marco Monti, president, automotive and discrete group
• Steven Rose, president, legal counsel.

“The key enablers and critical success factors to continue to improve ST’s fundamental, long-term value are people, leadership and teamwork, fully aligned on our well-established strategy and focused on clear goals,” said Chery.

El-Ouazzane started his career at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1997. He worked through various roles of increasing responsibility in engineering and business across the broad-band, mobile and embedded processing divisions over 15 years, rising to VP and GM of the Open Multimedia Applications Platform (OMAP).

El-Ouazzane was appointed CEO of Movidius in 2013, responsible for driving its vision processing unit (VPU) hardware and software technologies to advance the adoption of ar-tificial intelligence (AI) in the Internet of Things. With the acquisition of Movidius by Intel in 2016, El-Ouazzane joined Intel’s New Technology Group as VP and GM.

In 2018, El-Ouazzane became COO of Intel’s Artificial Intelligence Products Group, over-seeing edge to cloud AI accelerators engineering and product management. From 2020, he was the chief strategy officer of Intel’s Datacenter Platform Group, driving multiple strategic initiatives in the data center and cloud markets, including the acquisition of Ha-bana Labs to strengthen Intel’s portfolio of technologies for the cloud AI processor market.