News: Microelectronics
8 September 2025
Wise Integration appoints former Intel exec Ghislain Kaiser as CEO
Fabless company Wise-integration of Hyeres, France — which was spun off from CEA-Leti in 2020 and designs and develops digital control for gallium nitride (GaN) and GaN IC-based power supplies — has appointed Ghislain Kaiser as chief executive officer. He succeeds CEO & co-founder Thierry Bouchet, who will continue to serve as chief technology officer & general manager, leading worldwide R&D and driving the technological vision.
Picture: Wise Integration’s new CEO Ghislain Kaiser and its CTO Thierry Bouchet.
With a proven track record in growing and leading global teams in the semiconductor industry, Kaiser has experience in scaling deep-tech ventures. In 2006, he co-founded Docea Power, a French electronic design automation (EDA) startup pioneering full-chip, system-level power and thermal modelling, with the vision of addressing the growing power-consumption and thermal challenges in IC and platform design.
As CEO, he led the firm to its acquisition by Intel in 2015. He then joined Intel, where for the next decade he held senior director roles, most recently overseeing system-simulation engineering and worldwide customer-enablement organization. Those programs tackled the most critical power, thermal and performance challenges in designing consumer, data-center and AI systems.
Kaiser began his career at STMicroelectronics, where he held technical and leadership positions across test and product engineering, design, and architecture teams.
With Kaiser's appointment, Wise Integration is positioning itself to scale globally and capitalize on booming markets such as data centers powering artificial intelligence (AI), and electric vehicles (EV) — which demand more efficient, compact and digitally controlled power architectures.
“This marks a major milestone for the company as it transitions from a CEA‑Leti spinout into a pioneering force in GaN and digital power management innovation with strong growth potential,” says board chairman Patrick Boulaud. “Ghislain’s background makes him a natural choice as the CEO to guide the company through this next stage of growth,” he believes.
“Ghislain’s arrival begins a new chapter for Wise Integration,” Bouchet says. “With our WiseGan devices and WiseWare digital control, we’ve built a strong foundation in consumer markets. Now it’s time to scale our innovations and tackle the next big challenges — bringing unmatched efficiency and power density to AI servers, data centers and tomorrow’s automotive systems.”
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