OTTO KOSGALWIES
Corporate Vice President,
Company Infrastructure and Services (CIS)
STMicroelectronics
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 Otto
Kosgalwies was born in Assling, Germany, in 1956. He
graduated in Business and Economics from the Ludwigs-Maximilian
University in Munich.
Kosgalwies entered the semiconductor industry twenty four years
ago and has spent his entire career in positions of increasing
responsibility within companies that have grown into the current
STMicroelectronics. During the first eight years, Kosgalwies successfully
managed service, quality, and product promotion in Germany, Austria,
Switzerland, and Benelux.
In 1992, Kosgalwies took responsibility of central marketing
for European distribution. Three years later, he began to oversee
the Company's regional sales and marketing operations. In 1997,
he was appointed Managing Director of SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics
in Munich. Under his direction, the Company grew to become one
of the top three semiconductors suppliers in Central Europe.
At the beginning of 2001, Kosgalwies was promoted to Vice President
for Sales & Marketing in Europe and General Manager for Supply
Chain Management, where he was responsible at the corporate level
or the effective flow of goods and information from suppliers
to end users.
Drawing on his extensive sales and marketing experience, Kosgalwies
has concentrated his efforts on developing successful business
models with strategic customers. As a core member of the task
force leading ST’s move to broaden its customer base, he
has also significantly contributed to that ongoing process. Throughout
his career with ST, Kosgalwies has advocated the importance of
converging the market needs and the internal structure of the
company.
In 2004, Otto Kosgalwies was promoted to Corporate Vice President
Company Infrastructure and Services (CIS). He is responsible for
all ST worldwide activities related to Information Technologies,
Logistics, Subcontracting and Material Management, with particular
emphasis on the complete supply chain between customer demand,
manufacturing execution, inventory management, supplier and manufacturing
partner relations, to ensure that ST offers best in class services
and financial performances to external and internal stakeholders.
In January 2008, Kosgalwies was appointed to ST’s Executive
Committee, comprised of ten senior corporate executives in addition
to the COO and the CEO and Central Planning functions were added
to his mandate.
Reviewed-July 2008
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