Semtech Corporation (SMTC)

Hong Q. Hou has been president and chief executive since June 2024 and a director since July 2023. He came from Brooks Automation, where he ran the Semiconductor Group from February 2023, a business that supplies automated wafer handling and contamination control to chip factories; from August 2018 to February 2023 he ran the cloud networking group at Intel; and before that he was chief technical officer of Fabrinet, chief operating officer at AXT and chief executive of EMCORE. The job changed hands twice in under a year before him: Mohan Maheswaran was chief executive through June 29, 2023, and Paul Pickle from June 30, 2023 to June 6, 2024. On the insider record this site holds, Maheswaran filed as president and chief executive from 2006, the first year the SEC's data sets reach, to 2023. 123456

Four other executive officers serve with him. Mark Lin has been chief financial officer since he joined in October 2023; he was vice president and corporate controller of MKS, a supplier of technology to chip manufacturing, from November 2019, and spent June 2005 to July 2019 at Microsemi in accounting and finance roles. Asaf Silberstein has been chief operating officer since March 2023, having joined in December 2010 to run operations after three years at Microsemi. J. Michael Wilson has been chief quality officer and chief technology officer since February 2024 and came in with the 1995 purchase of ECI Semiconductor, where he was chief operating officer. Jason Green joined on February 3, 2025 as chief commercial officer, after reshaping how National Instruments sold its products from 2015 to 2023 and two decades at Maxim Integrated. 789101112131415

The board has nine directors, eight of them independent. Ye Jane Li has chaired it since 2024 and has filed as a Semtech director since 2016; she was chief operating officer of Huawei Enterprise USA from 2012 to 2015. Three of the nine, Gregory Fischer, Julie Ruehl and Paul Walsh, were first appointed under a cooperation agreement with a stockholder, and all three first filed as directors in 2023. Walsh, who was chief financial officer of Allegro MicroSystems until he retired in February 2022, chairs the audit committee. 1617181920212223246

At the end of the fiscal year, January 25, 2026, Semtech counted 1,920 full-time employees, up from 1,838 a year earlier, the rise coming mainly from acquisition activity and hiring for growth; about three in four of them, 1,437 people, are based outside the United States. Roughly half, 977, work in research and development, 338 in operations and 605 in selling, general and administrative roles, and there were also 45 interns and temporary employees and 46 independent contractors. No one is represented by a labor union except the staff in France, who have works councils. Average tenure is nine years. 25262728