NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXPI)

Rafael Sotomayor has been chief executive since October 28, 2025, when Kurt Sievers retired from the post after 30 years with NXP; the board chose him unanimously, having already named him president in April 2025. He joined NXP in 2014, ran business lines in its mobile, industrial and connected-device markets, joined the executive management team in 2020 and led the Secure Connected Edge business before the promotion. He also sits on the board as its temporary executive director, and holds electrical engineering degrees from Purdue and Georgia Tech and an MBA from Harvard Business School. 1234

The other executive officers: William Betz, chief financial officer since October 2021, who joined NXP in 2013 after finance posts at Fairchild, LSI Logic and Agere Systems; Andrew Hardy, chief sales officer since February 2025, who joined in 2014 after sales leadership roles at Texas Instruments and ran sales in the Americas from 2016; Christopher Jensen, chief people officer since June 2020, with NXP since its merger with Freescale in 2015; Andrew Micallef, chief operations and manufacturing officer since he joined in May 2021, before that chief operations officer of Marvell; and Jennifer Wuamett, general counsel since 2018 and chief sustainability officer since 2022, who had been general counsel of Freescale and worked at Motorola and Freescale from 1997. On the insider record this site holds, Michael Thomas Hoffmann first filed as executive vice president and general counsel in July 2026. 56789101112131415

The board is one-tier, meaning the chief executive and the outside directors sit on it together: nine non-executive directors and Sotomayor. Julie Southern, a director since October 2013 and chair since May 2023, was chief financial officer and then chief commercial officer of Virgin Atlantic. Moshe Gavrielov ran Xilinx as chief executive from 2008 to 2018 and also sits on the board of TSMC, NXP's partner in its Singapore wafer plant. Anthony Foxx was United States Secretary of Transportation from 2013 to 2017; Gregory Summe chaired Freescale's board before its merger with NXP in 2015; and Karl-Henrik Sundström was NXP's own chief financial officer from 2008 to 2012. 161718192021222324

At the end of 2025 NXP employed about 32,169 people in more than 30 countries across three regions, among them about 1,439 at SSMC, its joint-venture wafer plant in Singapore. About 11,034 of them work in research and development. Staff it calls direct labor mainly support manufacturing, while the rest work in research, sales and administration. Voluntary attrition, the share of people who chose to leave, was 5.1% in 2025. Part of the workforce is represented by labor unions, works councils operate in certain countries, and the filing reports no material labor disruptions. 25262728293024