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UGO CARENA
Corporate Vice President
General Manager
Automotive Product Group
STMicroelectronics
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Ugo Carena was born in Ivrea (Italy) in 1944 and graduated from the Polytechnic of Turin with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
He began his professional career in the area of electromechanical design at Olivetti in 1970. Among other achievements, Carena developed one of Olivetti’s first electronic calculators, which is now on display for its particular design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He also contributed to the introduction of the first worldwide electronic typewriter and many other Olivetti’s innovative products, including “Quaderno,” the first subnotebook introduced in the market in 1992.
At the end of the 1970s, Carena initiated a tight cooperation in product and technology development between Olivetti and SGS, a predecessor of ST. The close teamwork and successfully executed projects that resulted from this relationship, such as the large-scale contract for Smart Power ICs, marked the beginning of the Company’s long-running and highly successful partner strategy.
In 1997, Carena joined SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics (now STMicroelectronics) in Geneva as a manager of computer sales in Europe. A year later, he was appointed to head the newly formed Printer Division. Under his direction, the division’s total sales more than doubled in the following five years and the number of customers increased significantly. Carena also succeeded in intensifying the partnership with Hewlett-Packard and helped enlarge the printer product portfolio, opening a new line of digital products based on the most advanced CMOS technologies with embedded-DRAM features.
In 2003, Carena became Vice President of the Telecom, Peripherals & Automotive Group and General Manager Computer Peripherals and Industrial Group. In this position, he contributed substantially to the development of key Intellectual Property, such as a Read/Write Channel Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA), as well as the launch of ST´s Lab-on-Chip platform, the first market-available biochip for amplifying clinically relevant tiny DNA samples, enabling faster and more accurate detection of various diseases..
Following the announcement of organizational changes in September 2004, the Automotive Product Group (APG) has been established as one of the Company’s product groups, and on January 1st, 2005, Ugo Carena was promoted to Corporate Vice President APG General Manager.
Reviewed November 2008
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