CEO Roundtable

Barbara Bergmeier joined JLR as Executive Director, Industrial Operations in July 2022.

She leads JLR's Industrial Operations organisation, which incorporates the responsibilities previously split across its separate manufacturing, purchasing and supply chain teams. This change consolidates accountability for the complete ecosystem of how the company produces vehicles, in one place.

A key priority for Barbara’s reconfigured organisation is JLR’s robust, sustainable end-to-end supply chain as part of a fully connected industrial strategy. In turn, this will deliver greater efficiency and resilience of the company’s industrial operations across a connected global landscape.

Barbara joined JLR from Airbus Defence and Space, where she was Executive Vice President & Head of Operations. Barbara previously worked for almost 25 years at the BMW Group in international roles including Vice President of Chassis & Drive Components and Vice President of Assembly & Logistics.

A values-based, people-centric leader with more than 30 years’ multinational experience in the global automotive and aerospace industries, Barbara has an extensive background in OEM as well as tier one and internal supplier environments. Her diverse perspectives will enable Barbara to build on strong supplier relations, reinforcing JLR's position as a customer of choice.

Barbara is passionate about the digitalisation of companies as part of improved performance and competitiveness. Her dedication to quality and sustainability will play a key role in realising JLR’s Reimagine strategy, including fulfilling its Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) commitment to reduce operational greenhouse gas emissions by 46 per cent by 2030, as well as achieving net zero carbon emissions across supply chain, products and operations by 2039.

Barbara holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Applied Sciences in Landshut, Germany. She lives in the UK with her husband Sebastian and, outside work, Barbara’s interests include the great outdoors, animals, running, yoga and cooking for family and friends. She is also passionate about supporting community and charity endeavours.

Jean-Marc Chery is STMicroelectronics’ President and Chief Executive Officer and has held this position since May 2018. He chairs ST’s Managing Board and Executive Committee.

Chery began his career in the Quality organization of Matra, the French engineering group. In 1986, he joined Thomson Semiconducteurs, which subsequently became ST, and held various management positions in product planning and manufacturing, rising to lead ST’s wafer fabs in Tours, France, and later in Rousset, France. In 2005, Chery led the company-wide 6-inch wafer-production restructuring program before taking charge of ST’s Front-End Manufacturing operations in Asia Pacific. In 2008, he was promoted to Chief Technology Officer and assumed additional responsibilities for Manufacturing and Quality (2011) and the Digital Product Sector (2012). In 2014, Chery was appointed ST’s Chief Operating Officer responsible for Technology and Manufacturing operations. In July 2017, Chery was appointed Deputy CEO with overall responsibility for Technology and Manufacturing, as well as for Sales and Marketing operations.

Chery sits on the Board of Directors at the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) and France Industrie, and also serves as Chairman of the France – Malaysia Business Council at Medef International. He is a member of the Board of Directors at Legrand. Previously, Chery was President of the European microelectronics R&D program AENEAS and served as President of the European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA) in 2019-2021. Chery was promoted Knight of the Legion of Honor by the French Ministry of Economy and Finance in July 2019.

Jean-Marc Chery was born in Orleans, France, in 1960, and graduated with a degree in Engineering from the ENSAM engineering school in Paris, France.

Jochen Hanebeck has been Chief Executive Officer of Infineon Technologies since 2022 and a member of the Management Board since 2016. Between 2016 and 2022 he served as the company’s Chief Operations Officer.

Prior to this, he worked in various management functions, including President of the Automotive Division from 2008 to 2016. Between 1999 and 2009 he held different operations positions across the company. From 1994 to 1999 he worked in the DRAM memory technology development.

Hanebeck studied electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University. After he joined Infineon (Siemens AG until 1999), the company sent him to East Fishkill in New York State, where he worked at the IBM research lab. At this site Siemens, Toshiba and IBM joined forces in the development of 256-megabit DRAM memory.

Jochen Hanebeck was born in 1968 in Dortmund. From the very beginning, curiosity and the desire to understand things have been a strong drive for him. His enthusiasm for semiconductors has remained through all of his career stages. "I couldn't imagine working in any other industry," he says.

“Making life easier, safer and greener” is not only the mission Infineon pursues as a company. It is also Hanebeck’s personal motivation. As CEO he is passionate about working together with the Infineon team to drive forward the decarbonization and the digitalization of our world. Innovative and energy-efficient semiconductor solutions from Infineon are a key enabler for a net zero economy, and they link the real with the digital world.

Kurt Sievers has served as president and chief executive officer of NXP since May 2020.

As a member of NXP’s executive management team since 2009, Kurt has been instrumental in evolving the company to become a trusted partner for innovative solutions in the automotive, industrial & IoT, mobile and communications infrastructure markets. Prior to being elected CEO, Kurt served as president of NXP and oversaw all of the company’s business lines.

In 2019, Kurt led the successful acquisition of Marvell’s Wi-Fi Connectivity Business Unit, enabling NXP to deliver complete, scalable processing and connectivity solutions to customers across NXP’s focus end markets.

In 2015, he played a key role in the merger of NXP and Freescale Semiconductor, which created one of the world’s leading semiconductor companies and a leader in automotive semiconductors and secure edge processing.