Navitas names Chris Allexandre as president and CEO
GaN and SiC specialist Navitas Semiconductor has appointed Chris Allexandre as president and CEO, from September 1, 2025. Allexandre, who will also join the company’s board of directors, succeeds Gene Sheridan, a Navitas founder.
“We are excited to welcome Chris Allexandre as our new president and CEO,” said Richard J. Hendrix, chairman of Navitas’ board of directors. “Chris is joining Navitas at a pivotal moment in its evolution. We believe his track record of driving transformation and delivering sustainable and profitable growth, operational excellence and business leadership in power semiconductor markets makes him the right leader for the next chapter of Navitas."
He added: "On behalf of the board of directors, I’d like to thank Gene Sheridan for his vision in creating and leading Navitas over the last decade. Gene has established an exceptional company that stands ready to pursue the next phase of electrification in higher-power applications ideally suited for Navitas’ portfolio of GaN and SiC solutions. We deeply appreciate Gene’s leadership and impact, and his invaluable contributions to the board’s succession planning and recruiting efforts, which have brought Navitas to this important transition point.”
“I am incredibly proud of what we have accomplished at Navitas,” said Sheridan, reflecting on his 11-year tenure at the company. “Building the industry’s only next-gen, pure-play power semi company has been the privilege of a lifetime. As we look to the future, I’m confident that Chris Allexandre is the right choice to lead Navitas in its mission to Electrify Our World.”
Allexandre brings more than 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Most recently, he served in senior executive roles at Renesas Electronics, including SVP and general manager of its power division from October 2023. Allexandre oversaw Renesas’ $2.5b power management business and led the pivot and execution of its power strategies toward the cloud infrastructure, automotive and industrial markets, including Renesas’ acquisition and integration of Transphorm, a supplier of GaN solutions, in June 2024. Allexandre was previously Renesas’ chief sales and marketing officer from 2019 to 2023.
“I am honoured and thrilled to join Navitas and look forward to working with this world-class team to accelerate our leadership in GaN and SiC technologies,” said Allexandre. “With power demand growing in AI data centre and critically needed energy infrastructure, I see promising opportunities to drive expansion in these important markets. I also want to thank Gene for his great support planning for this transition, and for everything he has done for Navitas.”
Prior to his tenure at Renesas, Allexandre held executive roles at Integrated Device Technology (IDT) (acquired by Renesas in 2019) as SVP of sales and marketing; at NXP as SVP, worldwide sales for mass market; and at Fairchild Semiconductor as SVP of worldwide sales, marketing and business operations.
Allexandre began his career at Texas Instruments, beginning in its New College Graduate rotation program, and over 16 years progressing through a series of business and sales roles based in Europe and China, becoming TI’s VP of sales for EMEA and a member of TI’s strategic leadership team in 2012.
Allexandre’s management experience spans analogue, power, mixed-signal and digital products across cloud, industrial, mobile, consumer, telecom, and automotive markets.
Allexandre holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Institut Supérieur de l’Électronique et du Numérique (ISEN) in Lille, France.
