Cree Names Thomas Wessel as Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing
February 19 2018 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) announces the appointment of Thomas
Wessel as senior vice president of global sales and marketing,
effective Feb. 19, 2018. In this role, Wessel will report to Gregg
Lowe and oversee sales and marketing for the Wolfspeed™ power and
radio frequency (RF) and Cree LED components businesses.
Wessel brings more than 20 years of global sales and marketing
leadership experience within the semiconductor industry, serving
the automotive, industrial, electronics and communications markets.
He joins Cree from NanoSemi, Inc., a venture-funded spinoff from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and MIT Lincoln
Laboratory, where he served as vice president of sales and
marketing. Prior to that, he served as senior vice president of
worldwide sales and marketing at Analog Devices, Inc., a
multinational semiconductor company specializing in data conversion
and signal processing technology. In his role, he led the
organization to eight consecutive quarters of growth. His career
also spans sales and marketing management roles at Texas
Instruments and Atlantik Elektronik.
“Thomas has a history of success in sales, marketing and
business leadership within the markets Cree serves,” said Gregg
Lowe, CEO of Cree. “Cree’s Wolfspeed power and RF and LED component
technologies are critical to the success of today’s most in-demand
and evolving markets, such as the automotive industry’s transition
to electric vehicles. We are confident Thomas will help us unlock
Cree’s potential.”
Wessel holds an engineering degree in physics from the
University of Applied Sciences Lübeck and completed the advanced
management program at IESE Business School. He is a Stevie Awards
finalist for “Best Turnaround Executive,” recognized by the
industry’s only global, all-encompassing business awards program
honoring great performances in business.
About Cree, Inc.
Cree is an innovator of lighting-class LEDs, lighting products
and Wolfspeed™ power and radio frequency (RF) semiconductors.
Cree’s product families include LED lighting systems and lamps,
blue and green LED chips, high-brightness LEDs, lighting-class
power LEDs, SiC materials, power-switching devices and RF devices.
The Company’s products are targeted for applications such as indoor
and outdoor lighting, video displays, transportation, electronic
signs and signals, power supplies, inverters and wireless
systems.
For additional product and Company information, please refer to
www.cree.com.
Cree® is a registered trademark of Cree, Inc.
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