Renesas restructures to break out its power, software, manufacturing
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Renesas Electronics is to restructure into four technology-based product groups to consolidate its recent acquisitions alongside new groups for software, manufacturing and sales that will also report directly to the CEO.
Renesas is establishing a technology-based organization designed to provide more comprehensive and tailored designs. The four groups cover analog and connectivity, embedded processors, power and perhaps the most surprising in high performance computing.
Davin Lee, currently Vice President of Advanced Analog Division, will assume the role of Senior Vice President and General Manager of Analog & Connectivity. This brings together the Dialog business with Panthropics.
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Toshihiko Seki, currently Vice President of MCU Device Solution Division, will assume the role of Senior Vice President and General Manager of Embedded Processing. He will be responsible for Renesas’ entire standard catalog embedded processing products. The group is designed to accelerate the company’s efforts to provide more catalog products and reference designs to go deeper and broader with new and existing customers.
High Performance Computing
Vivek Bhan, who currently holds the position of Senior Vice President and Co-General Manager of High Performance Computing, Analog and Power Solutions Group, will assume the role of Senior Vice President and General Manager of High Performance Computing. He will be responsible for the company’s custom and application-specific high computing products.
Power
Chris Allexandre who currently serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer (CSMO) and Head of the Global Sales and Marketing Unit will take on a new role as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Power. He will be responsible for overseeing Renesas’ power management and discrete products and executing the company’s power strategies, largely based around the acquisition of Intersil in 2017.
As a result of the organizational changes, Roger Wendelken, who has been serving as Senior Vice President and Head of Embedded Microcontroller in the Embedded Processing, Digital Power and Signal Chain Solutions Group will leave Renesas.
Roger joined Renesas with Intersil and played an instrumental role in releasing the ARM-based RA microcontrollers.
In addition to the establishment of four product groups, Renesas has also taken steps to streamline its organizational structure by establishing new groups of functions. Thise include a new Software & Digitalization team and centralization of the Operations and Engineering functions.
Buvna Ayyagari has joined as Vice President of the new Software & Digitalization organization to spearhead this effort. Buvna will be responsible for driving unified software and digitalization efforts to be a differentiator for the company.
Buvna brings rich and multi-disciplinary expertise across the semiconductor industry from Applied Materials, Synopsys and Intel.
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Dr. Sailesh Chittipeddi, currently Executive Vice President, General Manager of Embedded Processing, Digital Power and Signal Chain Solutions Group, will take on a new role to oversee the new operations organization. This brings Renesas’ entire manufacturing, supply chain and procurement into a single organization chartered to lead the company’s operational and strategic initiatives to provide exceptional customer experiences.
Renesas is creating a centralized engineering organization to solidify Renesas’ engineering foundation, from product to test engineering. This new organization will direct the development and execution of the company’s technology and product roadmaps. Takeshi Kataoka, Senior Vice President and Co-General Manager of High Performance Computing, Analog and Power Solutions Group, will head this Engineering organization and will also oversee the Quality Assurance function as Senior Vice President and Head of Engineering and Quality Assurance.
Bobby Matinpour, who currently serves as Vice President of Global Strategic Vertical & Regional Sales, will succeed Chris Allexandre in the role of Senior Vice President, CSMO and Head of Sales & Marketing.
These executives as well as the heads of each of four product groups will report directly to the CEO. This will allow them to have greater influence on Renesas’ strategy and execution, while enhancing accountability says the company.
Hiroto Nitta will retire from his role of Senior Vice President of Information Technology and Vice President and Deputy General Manager of Global Sales Units as well as Senior Vice President and Deputy General Manager of Broad-Based Solution Business Unit. He also served as Senior Vice President and Head of SoC Business in the IoT and Infrastructure Business.
Andrew Cowell will retire from his role of Senior Vice President and Head of Performance Power. He joined in 2017 from Intersil.
Hiroto Nitta, Roger Wendelken and Andrew Cowell will assist with the transition and leave Renesas by the end of the year.
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