Executive Vice President and Head of Operations

Dr. Sailesh Chittipeddi serves as Executive Vice President and Head of Operations at Renesas Electronics Corporation. He oversees Renesas’ entire manufacturing, supply chain and procurement as a single organization chartered to lead the company's operational and strategic initiatives to provide exceptional customer experiences. He has held his current role since January 2024. Previously, he held the post of Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Embedded Processing, Digital Power and Signal Chain Solutions Group at Renesas, appointed in July 2019. He joined Renesas in March 2019.

Before joining Renesas, he served as IDT’s Executive Vice President of Global Operations and CTO, with an additional focus on corporate growth and differentiation. In this role, he was responsible for the company’s operations, procurement, quality, supply chain, foundry engineering, assembly engineering, product & test engineering, facilities, Design Automation, and Information Technology groups. From a product line perspective, he had responsibility for the IoT Systems Group, RapidWave Interconnect Systems, PCIe and Standard Products Group. Additionally, Dr. Chittipeddi helped IDT leverage its existing strengths to increase corporate value while driving the rapid delivery of new products.

Prior to joining IDT, Dr. Chittipeddi was President and CEO of Conexant Systems and served on its Board of Directors. He led the company in its transition from a public company to private ownership and through its debt restructuring efforts. Before that, he held several executive roles at Conexant Systems, including COO, co-President, EVP for Operations and Chief Technical Officer. Dr. Chittipeddi started his career in technology with AT&T Bell Labs and progressively managed larger engineering and operations groups with AT&T Microelectronics/Lucent and Agere Systems.

Dr. Chittipeddi serves on multiple Boards.

Dr. Chittipeddi holds five degrees, including an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in physics from The Ohio State University. Dr. Chittipeddi has earned 72 U.S. patents related to semiconductor process, package and design, and over 40 technical articles published.

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