Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer
Stephan Zizala has served as Chief Executive Officer of u-blox since January 1, 2023. He joined u-blox in October 2022.Prior to joining u-blox, from 2014 to 2022, Stephan led the business line Automotive High Power of the Automotive division of Infineon Technologies AG. He was responsible for high-voltage Silicon and Silicon Carbide, as well as low-voltage power semiconductor products used in electrified, automated, and smart cars.From 2009 to 2013, Stephan headed the business segment of industrial and multimarket microcontrollers. He joined Infineon in 2001 and held several marketing and management positions in various business units, such as microcontrollers, security ICs, and wireless baseband ICs. Prior to joining Infineon, Stephan worked as an associated member of staff in Infineon’s mixed-signal development team doing project work for his PhD thesis. His industry expertise includes further positions at Synopsys Inc. and Siemens AG. Since 2016 Stephan has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Schweizer Electronic AG and currently serves as Deputy Chairman.Stephan Zizala was born in Augsburg, Germany, in 1972. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Technische Universität München (Technical University Munich), Germany.