Biography

Christophe Ayela is Executive Vice President, Analog & Power Front-End Manufacturing, and has held this position since November 2023.

Ayela joined STMicroelectronics in Tours (France) as R&D engineer in 1990. Five years later, he moved to Tours Manufacturing as Engineering Manager. In 2005, Ayela was named Tours Operations Deputy Director. In 2011, Ayela became the Tours Operations Director; he was then promoted to Operations Director for the Tours front-end and Rennes back-end sites in 2016. In 2018, Ayela was appointed General Manager for ST’s Asia Pacific Region Front-End Manufacturing, leading the capacity extension and operations transformation of the 200mm fab in Ang Mo Kio (Singapore).

Christophe Ayela was born in Cognac, France in 1966. He graduated in Microelectronics Engineering from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) of Toulouse, France.