Dr. Reinhard Ploss
Chief Executive Officer
Reinhard Ploss has been a member of the Management Board of Infineon Technologies AG since 2007. He has been CEO since 1 October 2012.
Reinhard Ploss was born on 8 December 1955 in Bamberg. He studied process engineering at the Technical University of Munich and in 1986 received his doctorate. He began his career at Infineon (Siemens AG until 1999) in the same year.
Positions within the company
| Since 2012 | Chief Executive Officer, responsible for Divisions, Group Strategy, Communications & Government Relations, Human Resources (Labor Director), Legal, Research & Development |
| Since 2007 | Member of the Management Board |
| 2005 | Head of Development and Manufacturing as well as Operational Management in the Automotive, Industrial & Multimarket Segment |
| 2000 | President of the Automotive, Industrial & Multimarket Business Group |
| 1999 | Head of the Industrial Power Business Unit as well as President of eupec GmbH Co. KG, a subsidiary of Infineon |
| 1996 | Head of the Power Semiconductor Business Unit, focusing on development and manufacturing |
| 1993 | Head of Technology in the Villach chip manufacturing plant (Austria) |
| 1986 | Process engineer for chip manufacturing in Munich |