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Denis Griot
CEO Europe, Freescale Semiconductor
Denis Griot is Senior Vice President and Chairman, Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region, and Global Automotive Marketing Lead for Freescale Semiconductor. He joined Motorola’s European semiconductor business in 1984 after having spent 14 years with Philips Corporation. In 1988, he was appointed Vice President and Director of wafer manufacturing. In 1997 he managed the only Motorola semiconductor division headquartered outside the United States. This division became the leading producer of embedded solutions to the automotive industry. Prior to his current role, he was General Manager for the Freescale EMEA region. In this position he has been instrumental in the creation of the Crolles2 Alliance, one of the largest R&D alliance in the industry.
He holds five semiconductor patents and earned the Semiconductor International Award in 1984 for outstanding achievements in process engineering for semiconductor manufacturing. He earned master’s degrees in solid-state physics and nuclear physics respectively from INSEA Lyon and INPG Grenoble, France.