Soitec announces that its Board of Directors agreed to appoint Pierre Barnabé to succeed Paul Boudre as Group CEO. Pierre is to join the company on May 1, 2022 on a mission attributed by the Board, and will work closely with Paul Boudre until he assumes the CEO role after the annual shareholder meeting in July 2022, thus ensuring a smooth leadership transition. Pierre Barnabé, 51, joins Soitec from Atos, a worldwide Information Technology leader, where he has served since 2015 as Senior EVP in charge of Big Data and Cybersecurity.

Since 2019, Pierre has also been responsible for Public Sector & Defense and Manufacturing Industry, overseeing multibillion-euro revenues and more than 11,000 employees worldwide. Prior to joining Atos, he was Chief Operating Officer at Bull, acquired by Atos in 2014. Pierre Barnabé is a graduate of NEOMA Business School and CentraleSupélec.