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ALAIN DUTHEIL
Chief Operating Officer
and Vice Chairman of the Corporate Executive Committee
STMicroelectronics
Chief Executive Officer, ST-NXP Wireless
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Born in 1945 in Martigues (France), Alain Dutheil
is an Engineering graduate from the Ecole Superieure d'Ingenieurs
of Marseilles, France.
He joined Texas Instruments in 1969. Following several promotions,
he rose to Director of Operations of Texas Instruments, Portugal.
Dutheil joined Thomson Semiconducteurs in 1983 as Plant Manager
of the Aix-en-Provence plant in France. He was later appointed
General Manager for the Discrete Products Division, a position
that he held until 1989, two years after the merger between the
French company Thomson Semiconducteurs and the Italian manufacturer
SGS Microelettronica that gave birth to the Franco-Italian group
SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics (now STMicroelectronics).
Dutheil became Corporate Vice President of the Company in 1989
and combined the positions of Director of Corporate Human Resources
and Director for Worldwide Back-End Manufacturing (four plants
and 8000 people throughout the world, at that time). Five years
later he relinquished his back-end manufacturing responsibilities
and was appointed Corporate Vice President, Strategic Planning,
in addition to his position as Corporate Vice President, Human
Resources.
A firm believer of Total Quality Management (TQM) and employee
development and training, Dutheil implemented an active TQM network
and suggestion schemes throughout the world. He also created an
innovative education tool for the Company, the STMicroelectronics
University (STU), based at Fuveau, France. Since 1994, STU has
trained around 30,000 employees of the company in both management
and high-level technical disciplines.
In 2005, Dutheil was appointed ST’s Chief Operating Officer
and the Vice Chairman of the Corporate Executive Committee, comprised
of ten senior corporate executives in addition to the COO and
the CEO. He is also a member of the board of STMicroelectronics
Japan and for 10 years was the President and CEO of STMicroelectronics
SA, the French subsidiary of the Group. Thanks to his deep experience
in back-end activities, Dutheil also retains the responsibility
of President of STS Microelectronics, the joint venture formed
with Shenzhen SEG Hi-Tech Industrial Co. (SHIC) in the People’s
Republic of China.
In August 2008, in his present role as ST’s Chief Operating
Officer, Dutheil was appointed to lead ST-NXP Wireless as Chief
Executive Officer focusing exclusively on the new joint venture.
Dutheil sits on the Board of Directors of CATRENE, the pan-European
Programme for advanced cooperative Research and Development in
Microelectronics, and in November 2007, he took on the position
of the Chairman of the European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory
Council (ENIAC). In 2005, Alain Dutheil was named a Chevalier
of the Legion of Honor by the French government in recognition
of his outstanding career in the service of science and industry.
Updated - September 2008
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