Loïc Liétar is an Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer of STMicroelectronics, and has held this position since January 2008. He is responsible for the Company’s Strategic Planning, Corporate Business Development, and Corporate Communication (since February 2010). Liétar is a member of ST’s Corporate Strategic Committee and also sits on the Board of Directors of ST-Ericsson.

Liétar joined Thomson Semiconducteurs, a predecessor company to STMicroelectronics, in 1985. After working in R&D Management and Marketing, he was appointed Director of the Company’s Advanced Systems Technology labs in the US in 1999. Four years later, Liétar became General Manager of ST’s Cellular Terminals Division, and later moved to head the Application Processor Division. Appointed Group Vice President, Strategies in 2006, he contributed to deconsolidating ST’s Flash memory business, as well as establishing the R&D partnership with IBM and creating ST-Ericsson, the wireless joint venture with Ericsson.

Liétar sits on the Board of Directors of the Global Semiconductor Alliance. In April 2010, he was elected President of the Minalogic micro-nanotechnology cluster in Grenoble, France.

Loïc Liétar was born in Paris, France, in 1962. He graduated with degrees in Engineering and Microelectronics from the École Polytechnique and Orsay University in Paris, respectively, and holds an MBA from Columbia University, New York.

Updated May 2010