ST-NXP Wireless Appoints Corporate VP Sales and Marketing
(Business News & Technology News, 19 Aug 2008)
ST-NXP Wireless has announced the appointment of Pascal Langlois as Corporate Vice President, Sales and Marketing, effective September 1, 2008. Expanding the executive team composed of experienced industry leaders, Langlois, most recently NXP's Senior Vice President, Global Sales, for the entire corporation, brings to the joint venture a track record of strong sales management. In the new role, he will report directly to ST-NXP Wireless CEO, Alain Dutheil.
Langlois spent 12 years at VLSI Technology, rising through the ranks to the position of VP and General Manager for Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan. In 1999, he joined Philips Semiconductors as Vice President and General Manager of Sales & Marketing for the Automotive Segment, and was promoted in 2003 to Senior Vice President, Channel Management and Multimarket Semiconductors Sales.
In 2006, Langlois was named Senior Vice President, Global Sales, and a member of the executive management team at NXP, an independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, which contributed its key wireless operations to the recently created joint venture with STMicroelectronics.