Dr. Rainer Käsmaier

Since 2018 Dr. Rainer Kaesmaier is leading the semiconductor business with its global manu-facturing and R&D footprint for the power semi-conductor product portfolio which compromises GTOs, IGBTs, IGCTs, Thyristors, Diodes for market seg-ments such as energy transmission & distribution, transportation & rail, renewable, industry and e-mobility. Rainer is a semiconductor industry veteran having held various management and executive positions in the sector for more than 25 years, covering areas of global responsibility in business strategy and development, business transformation, technology and engineering, operations and production, R&D, as well as sales and marketing. After stations at Siemens, Infineon, Qimonda, and the European semiconductor manufacturer LFoundry, he assumed the responsibility for the global semiconductor business of Hitachi Energy. In addition to that, Rainer is since 2019 also member of the management board for Hitachi Energy Switzerland Ltd. He was a member in various industries strategy committees in Europe and the US, and currently in the advisory board for ISES Power Semiconductor Executive Summits. Rainer holds a masters degree in physics from the Technical University Munich and a PhD in physics from the University Kassel in Germany. He is based in Lenzburg near Zürich, Switzerland.