News: Microelectronics
26 August 2025
Navitas names Chris Allexandre as president & CEO and board member
Gallium nitride (GaN) power IC and silicon carbide (SiC) technology firm Navitas Semiconductor Corp of Torrance, CA, USA has appointed Chris Allexandre as president & chief executive officer, effective 1 September. He will also join the board of directors.
Allexandre succeeds Navitas’ co-founder Gene Sheridan, who steps down as president & CEO and board member on 31 August.
“Chris is joining Navitas at a pivotal moment in its evolution,” notes chairman Richard J. Hendrix. “We believe his track record of driving transformation and delivering sustainable and profitable growth, operational excellence and business leadership in power semiconductor markets makes him the right leader for the next chapter of Navitas,” he adds.
“On behalf of the board of directors, I’d like to thank Gene Sheridan for his vision in creating and leading Navitas over the last decade,” comments Hendrix. “Gene has established an exceptional company that stands ready to pursue the next phase of electrification in higher-power applications ideally suited for Navitas’ portfolio of GaN and SiC solutions. We deeply appreciate Gene’s leadership and impact, and his invaluable contributions to the board’s succession planning and recruiting efforts, which have brought Navitas to this important transition point,” he adds.
“Building the industry’s only next-gen, pure-play power semi company has been the privilege of a lifetime,” says Sheridan, reflecting on his 11-year tenure at the company.
Allexandre has more than 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Most recently, he served in senior executive roles at Renesas Electronics Corp, including senior VP & general manager of its Power Division from October 2023. Allexandre oversaw Renesas’ $2.5bn power management business and led the pivot and execution of its power strategies toward the cloud infrastructure, automotive and industrial markets, including Renesas’ acquisition and integration of GaN solutions provider Transphorm Inc in June 2024. He was previously Renesas’ chief sales & marketing officer from 2019 to 2023.
“With power demand growing in AI data-center and critically needed energy infrastructure, I see promising opportunities to drive expansion in these important markets,” says Allexandre.
Prior to his tenure at Renesas, Allexandre held executive roles at Integrated Device Technology Inc (IDT) (acquired by Renesas in 2019) as senior VP of sales & marketing; at NXP Corp as senior VP, worldwide sales for mass market; and at Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc as senior VP of worldwide sales, marketing and business operations. He began his career at Texas Instruments Inc, beginning in its New College Graduate rotation program and, over 16 years, progressing in leadership through a series of business and sales roles based in Europe and China, becoming TI’s VP of sales for EMEA and a member of TI’s strategic leadership team in 2012.
Allexandre’s management experience spans analog, power, mixed-signal and digital products across cloud, industrial, mobile, consumer, telecom, and automotive markets.
He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Institut Supérieur de l’Électronique et du Numérique (ISEN) in Lille, France.
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