indie Semiconductor, Inc. (INDI)
Who runs indie Semiconductor, Inc.
Officers and directors as they report to the SEC on Forms 3, 4 and 5, named as filedDonald McClymont, the chief executive, and Ichiro Aoki, the president, co-founded indie and both sit on its board. The annual report dates the founding to 2007; the proxy statement dates it to 2012, the year from which it counts each man in his present role. Both came from Axiom Microdevices, later sold to Skyworks Solutions, where McClymont was vice president of marketing and Aoki a co-founder, board member and chief architect. Earlier, McClymont was a product line director at Skyworks Solutions and Conexant and a marketing manager at Fujitsu; Aoki founded PST Eletronica in Brazil, later sold to Stoneridge, and was its co-chief executive, and he holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. From November 2024 to March 2025, at the executives' own request, the two founders' base salaries were cut to one dollar a year to conserve cash. 123456789
The annual report names two more executive officers. Naixi Wu has been chief financial officer since November 2025. She joined indie in May 2021 as director of SEC reporting, the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, became vice president and then senior vice president of accounting, and was chief accounting officer from April 2025. Before indie she held senior accounting roles at CalAmp from 2017 to 2021, after posts at Westfield and RealD and a start at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Her predecessor, Kanwardev Raja Singh Bal, resigned in April 2025; his last day was May 13, 2025. Michael Wittmann has been chief operating officer since January 2024, in charge of the supply chain, manufacturing engineering and information technology. He joined in March 2021 as vice president of marketing, ran the power business unit from June 2022, and before that worked at Intel from 2012 to 2021, last as general manager of wireless and connectivity sales. 10111213141516171819
David Aldrich, an independent director, has chaired the board since June 2021; the chair and the chief executive's roles are held by different people. He was chief executive of Skyworks Solutions from its formation in 2002 and chaired it from 2014 to 2018. Two directors come from the car industry: Jeffrey Owens retired in 2017 as chief technology officer of Delphi Automotive, and Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann was president of Europe for General Motors from 2013 to 2018, chairman of the executive board of Continental from 2008 to 2009 and head of Volkswagen Group China from 2010 to 2012. The others are Diane Brink, who retired from IBM after 35 years; Sonalee Parekh, chief financial officer of SentinelOne since March 2026; and Diane Biagianti, a director since April 2022 and a senior vice president at Glaukos. On the insider record all six outside directors still file, and the record also carries Thomas Schiller under the title chief financial officer and executive vice president of strategy, filing since 2021. 2021222324252627282930
At the end of 2025 indie had about 800 full-time employees, none of them represented by a union. Research is run mainly from the headquarters in Aliso Viejo, California, with design centers in the United States, Argentina, Canada, Hungary, Germany, Scotland, Morocco, Israel, Switzerland and China. Headcount came down through reductions in force in August 2024 and May 2025, which the filing credits for a 12.8 million dollar fall in personnel costs within research and development in 2025. 3132333435
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| Name | Title as filed | First filing | Latest filing | Sales, 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wu Naixi | Chief Financial Officer | Nov 2025 | Nov 10, 2026 | 29 · $900,000 |
| Mcclymont Donald | Chief Executive Officer | Jun 2021 | Sep 17, 2026 | 15 · $2.5M |
| Wittmann Michael | Chief Operating Officer | Feb 2024 | Sep 3, 2026 | 20 · $1.3M |
| Schiller Thomas | CFO and EVP of Strategy | Jun 2021 | Sep 1, 2026 | 2 · $0.00 |
| Aoki Ichiro | President | Jun 2021 | Jun 3, 2026 | 39 · $10.5M |
| Name | Role | First filing | Latest filing | Sales, 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aldrich David J | director | Jun 2021 | Sep 3, 2026 | none |
| Brink Diane D | director | Jun 2021 | Sep 3, 2026 | none |
| Owens Jeffrey J | director | Jun 2021 | Sep 3, 2026 | none |
| Parekh Sonalee Elizabeth | director | Jun 2021 | Aug 21, 2026 | 2 · $300,000 |
| Biagianti Diane W. | director | Apr 2022 | May 29, 2026 | none |
| Neumann Karl-Thomas | director | Jun 2021 | May 29, 2026 | none |
A person is listed as reporting now after a filing in the last fifteen months. The record shows when someone last filed; it does not say why they stopped. Each name links to the filings on sec.gov.