Kurt Sievers (1969, German) is executive director, president and chief executive officer since May 2020, after a successful track record as the president of NXP, overseeing all the company’s business lines, since 2018. Mr. Sievers joined NXP in 1995, and rapidly moved through a series of Marketing and Sales, Product Definition and Development, Strategy and General Management leadership positions across a broad number of market segments. He has been a member of the executive management team since 2009, where he has been instrumental in the definition and implementation of the NXP High-Performance Mixed Signal strategy. In 2015, Mr. Sievers was influential in the merger of NXP and Freescale Semiconductor.
Mr. Sievers serves on the board of the German National Electrical and Electronics Industry Association (ZVEI), the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) and Capgemini S.E. Mr. Sievers is president of ESIA (European Semiconductor Industry Association). He chaired the advisory board of the international trade-fair Electronica until June 2021. He is also president of AENEAS, an industrial association for application and technology research in Europe on nano-electronics. Mr. Sievers serves as a member of the Asia-Pacific-Committee of German Business (APA) and as a member of the board at the German Asia-Pacific Business Association (OAV), acting as the spokesperson for the Republic of Korea. He earned a master’s degree in physics and information technology from Augsburg University, Germany.