Stefan Obersriebnig
SVP High Voltage Modules
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Stefan Obersriebnig is Senior Vice President and global business responsible for Infineon Technologies’ automotive module business. During his tenure in various senior-management roles within Infineon, he has had a strong focus on driving the adoption of new Wide-Bandgap devices in the automotive, industrial, and consumer space.
Before joining Infineon, Stefan worked at Siemens Management Consulting in Germany, USA, and lastly as Principal for 3 years in China. He focused on international growth, organizational transformation & cultural change, as well as turnaround & restructuring.
Stefan holds an MBA from IESE Business School (Spain) and a MSc (Honors) in Environmental Engineering from Leoben University (Austria). With his deep connection to nature and the environment, Stefan is passionate about driving Decarbonization & Digitalization for Infineon’s customers.
Company Profile
Here at Infineon, we combine entrepreneurial success with responsible action to make life easier, safer, and greener. Barely visible, semiconductors have become an indispensable part of everyday life. We play a key role in shaping a better future – with microelectronics that link the real and the digital world. Our semiconductors enable efficient energy management, smart mobility, as well as secure, seamless communications in an increasingly connected world. Infineon designs, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of semiconductors and system solutions. The focus of its activities is on automotive and industrial electronics, communication and information technologies, IoT, sensor technology and security. The product range comprises standard components, software, customer-specific solutions for devices and systems, as well as specific components for digital, analog, and mixed-signal applications.
Alexander Krick
Executive Vice President
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- For more than 20 years employed at Volkswagen Group
- Since 2025 – Acting Head of Technical Development & Product Management
- Since 2020 – Head of Development E-Drive, Power Electronics & Transmission
- 2019-2020 – Head of Planning- & Development Steering of the Business Unit Transmission & E-Drive
- Until 2019 – several national and international managing positions in the development environment (e.g. China)
- Dipl. Ing. Electrical Engineering (University Kassel and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
- Member of the Board with the FVA and VDE GMM
Company Profile
As group-wide „Powerhouse“ of Volkswagen, the group resort Technology with its business units is responsible for the core transformation-topics “battery”, “charging and energy”, and “components”. It shapes the development and production of strategic components for the car-manufacturing brands of the group and with its “platform business” also for OEMs outside the Volkswagen Group. As an independent company inside the group resort Technology, Volkswagen Group Components employs 70.000 employees in more than 60 factories worldwide. They provide a valuable contribution for the Volkswagen Group, its brands and products. Thomas Schmall is the board member for the group resort Technology and CEO of Volkswagen Group Components.
David Auffret
Automotive Marketing Manager
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David Auffret is the Product Marketing Manager for Automotive at X-FAB, the leading analog/mixed-signal and MEMS foundry group. David joined X-FAB in 2020, by taking over responsibility for the RF technologies and recently the Automotive market. He holds responsibilities of strategic development, product roadmap and portfolio management, business development and branding of X-FAB’s Automotive portfolio. Prior to this role, David held various engineering, customer support and product management positions in the RF cellular semiconductor (fabless) as well as Automotive industries (Tier 1s). David received his Master’s Degree in Electronics Engineering in 2007 from Brest National School of Engineering (France).
Company Profile
X-FAB is one of the world’s leading specialty foundry groups for analog/mixed-signal semiconductor technologies with a clear focus on automotive, industrial, and medical applications. As a pure-play foundry, X-FAB provides manufacturing and design support services to customers that design analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) and other semiconductor devices for use in their own products or the products of their customers. Its customers worldwide benefit from the highest quality standards, manufacturing excellence and innovative solutions by using X-FAB’s modular CMOS and SOI processes in geometries ranging from 1.0 µm to 110 nm, and its special micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) processes. X-FAB is also the first pure-play foundry to provide comprehensive processing technologies for the wide-bandgap materials silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN). The GaN-on-Si wafers are manufactured in its modern 8” fab in Dresden, Germany, and SiC wafers in the 6” fab in Lubbock, Texas, USA. X-FAB runs six production facilities in Germany, France, Malaysia and the U.S. The company employs about 4,200 people worldwide.
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