Dr. Helmut Gassel
Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
Helmut Gassel has been a member of the Management Board of Infineon Technologies AG since 2016. He is responsible for Sales & Marketing, Regions, Strategy Development and Mergers & Acquisitions.
Helmut Gassel was born on March 13, 1964 in Dortmund, Germany. He studied at the Ruhr-University in Bochum and received a degree in physics and a doctorate in electrical engineering. He joined Infineon (Siemens AG until 1999) in 1995.
Positions within the company
| Since 2016 | Member of the Management Board, responsible for Sales & Marketing, Regions, Strategy Development and Mergers & Acquisitions |
| 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 |