Dr. Helmut Gassel
Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
Helmut Gassel has been a member of the Management Board and Chief Marketing Officer of Infineon Technologies AG since 2016 (mandated until 30 June 2024).
He is responsible for Sales & Marketing, Regions, Strategy Development, Mergers & Acquisitions and Intellectual Property.
Helmut Gassel was born on March 13, 1964, in Dortmund, Germany. He holds a Diploma in Physics from the Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University Duisburg, Germany. He joined Infineon (Siemens AG until 1999) in 1995.
Positions within the company
| Since 2016 | Member of the Management Board and Chief Marketing Officer, responsible for Sales & Marketing, Regions, Strategy Development, Mergers & Acquisitions and Intellectual Property |
| 2012 | Division President Industrial Power Control |
| 2008 | Division President Chip Card & Security |
| 2006 | Head of the Chip Card & Security ICs Business Unit with global business responsibility |
| 2002 | Head of Global Marketing and Application Technology for power semiconductors in automotive electronics |
| 1999 | Head of Marketing for power semiconductors for automotive electronics in North America, Detroit, MI, USA |
| 1995 | Project and Group Leader in power components development in Munich |
Further positions
| 1990 | Project Manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems in Duisburg |
Membership of Supervisory Boards and governing bodies of domestic and foreign companies
Member of the Board of Directors
- Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific Pte., Ltd., Singapore (Chairman) (group mandate, not listed)
- Infineon Technologies Japan K.K., Tokyo, Japan (Chairman) (group mandate, not listed)
- Infineon Technologies China Co., Ltd., Shanghai, People’s Republic of China (group mandate, not listed)
- Infineon Technologies Americas Corp., Wilmington, Delaware, USA (Chairman) (group mandate, not listed)