Executive Biographies

BENEDETTO VIGNA Corporate Vice President General Manager, Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group Industrial & Multisegment Sector Benedetto Vigna is Corporate Vice President, General Manager of the Analog, MEMS and Sensors Product Group, and has held this position since September 2011.

Vigna joined STMicroelectronics' R&D Lab in Castelletto, Italy, in 1995. Six years later, he was appointed Director of the MEMS Business Unit, responsible for design, manufacturing and marketing of ST’s MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes. These have been successfully adopted by large consumer equipment manufacturers for motion-activated user interfaces in many popular devices, including the Nintendo Wii game console and a wide range of smartphones and tablets. In 2007, Vigna’s organization was transformed into a Product Division and his scope was subsequently enlarged to include management of Sensors, RF, High-Performance Analog and Mixed Signal, as well as Interface, Audio for Portable, and General-Purpose Analog products.

Vigna has filed more than 130 patents on micromachining to date, authored numerous publications in this field, and delivered many invited speeches at international conferences. He also served as industrial consultant for the President of the Italian Scientific Research Center.

Benedetto Vigna was born in Potenza, Italy, in 1969, and graduated with a degree in Subnuclear Physics from the University of Pisa, Italy.

Updated September 2011