A senior executive with over two decades of international business and leadership experience, Ms. Wuamett has been a member of executive management teams of global, publicly-traded, high technology, and manufacturing companies with operations in the US, Europe, and Asia. She is passionate about solving complex business challenges and creating and building inclusive cultures that embrace innovation and sustainability. She has a critical understanding of technology industry dynamics and a wealth of experience developing strategies and policies to address challenges facing today’s global companies, including managing complex commercial, international trade, regulatory, public affairs, and compliance risks, protecting against intellectual property and cybersecurity threats, addressing evolving stakeholder expectations around ESG and handling the impact of geopolitical tensions in a rapidly changing global operating environment. She has served in an executive capacity to Boards of global companies with extensive operations in the US, Europe, and China, and she has extensive experience in the areas of corporate governance, ESG and risk oversight, regulatory compliance, public and government affairs, and investor relations matters.
Ms. Wuamett has managed intellectual property operations and P&L IP monetization businesses that have collectively generated in excess of $1B in IP licensing and sales revenue over the past 15 years. She also has extensive M&A experience and has played a key role in numerous complex, high-profile international transactions, including transformational mergers, acquisitions, spin-outs, divestitures, IPOs, leveraged buyouts and joint ventures. She was deeply involved in several of the largest and most significant M&A transactions in the technology industry in the last two decades and has unique experience managing through regulatory approval processes, integration planning and post-transaction integration among multi-cultural teams.
Ms. Wuamett is Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief Sustainability Officer for NXP Semiconductors, a world leader in the design and manufacture of semiconductors and secure embedded intelligence solutions for the automotive, industrial and IOT, mobile and communications infrastructure markets with over 31,000 employees and operations in 33 countries. She serves as President and Chair of the NXP USA Board and President of the Board of the NXP Foundation. She is also responsible for the Company’s ESG and Enterprise Risk Programs and serves as an executive member of the company’s Management Team, Ethics Committee, Communications and Public Affairs Committee and Geopolitical Strategy Committee, and chairs the Company’s ESG and Risk Boards.