Jochen Hanebeck

Jochen Hanebeck has been Chief Executive Officer of Infineon Technologies since 2022. He has been a member of the Management Board as the company’s Chief Operations Officer since 2016.  

Prior to this, he worked in various management functions, including President of the Automotive Division from 2008 to 2016. He has been with Infineon since 1994 (Siemens AG until 1999).

Jochen Hanebeck was born in 1968 in Dortmund. From the very beginning, curiosity and the desire to understand things have been a strong drive for him. At the age of six, he wanted to know what made a telephone work. At age 14, he built his first computer and used it to control a homemade robot (based on a set by Fischer-Technik) that could pick up coins. Later, he financed his studies in part by working in an engineering office, where he soldered and programmed semiconductors for industrial plant control.

Hanebeck studied electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University. After he had completed his studies, Siemens sent him to East Fishkill in New York State in 1994. At the IBM research lab, Siemens, Toshiba, and IBM wanted to jointly develop 256-megabit DRAM memory. His enthusiasm for semiconductors has remained through all of his career stages. "I couldn't imagine working in any other industry," he says.

“Making life easier, safer, and greener” is not only the mission Infineon pursues as a company. It is also Hanebeck’s personal motivation. As CEO, he is passionate about working together with the Infineon team to drive forward the decarbonization and the digitalization of our world. Innovative and energy-efficient semiconductor solutions from Infineon are a key enabler for a net-zero economy, and they link the real with the digital world.