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Loïc Liétar was born in Paris France in 1962. He graduated with a degree in Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Paris in 1984 a degree in Microelectronics from Orsay University (1985) and he holds an MBA from Columbia University New York (1993).
Liétar joined Thomson Semiconducteurs a predecessor company to STMicroelectronics in 1985 as an analog IC designer at the Company’s site in Grenoble France. Between 1987 and 1998 he held several positions in R&D Management and Marketing in Milan Paris and Singapore. In 1999 he was appointed Director of Advanced System Technologies US Labs based in San Diego where he oversaw the development of computing graphics and networking technologies.
In 2003 Liétar was appointed General Manager of ST’s Cellular Terminals Division where he moved to Geneva to spearhead the expansion of ST’s wireless business. He later moved to the Application Processor Division of ST bringing Nomadik ST’s leading-edge low-power device for enhanced mobile applications to market.
In 2006 Liétar was appointed Group Vice President Strategies for ST’s Strategies and System Technologies Group based in Geneva where he was instrumental in establishing ST’s partnership with IBM in advanced CMOS process development and in founding Numonyx the flash memory joint-venture of ST and Intel.
In January 2008 Loïc Lietar was promoted to Corporate Vice President Corporate Business Development responsible for ST’s Technology Strategic Alliances Mergers&Acquisitions and Strategic Planning. | 