Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors has promoted Michael Hoffman to general counsel, replacing Jennifer Wuamett in the role.
Hoffman was previously the company’s deputy GC and was lined up as Wuamett’s successor back in February when she announced her decision to step down from the GC role at the end of June.
Eindhoven, Netherlands-based NXP designs and manufactures chips that are used in the automotive, industrial, consumer and technologies industries, including by Apple and Samsung.
Writing on LinkedIn, Hoffman said: “As I join the NXP management team, my ambition is for legal to be a team that moves at the pace of our business, thinks ahead and takes real accountability for the outcomes we shape together. Strong governance and sound risk management are not the opposite of that. They are what make it possible to act decisively and protect what we build, so our business can move fast with confidence.”
Hoffman joined NXP in 2007 as senior counsel, before later becoming GC for its APAC business, chief commercial counsel and then deputy GC in 2020.
Prior to joining NXP, Hoffman spent just over four years as senior legal counsel at T-Mobile Germany.
Wuamett, meanwhile, will remain on at the company until the end of the year in a special adviser to the CEO role, while also continuing to serve as chief sustainability officer – an additional role she took on in 2022.
She has been at NXP for more than a decade, originally joining as deputy GC before becoming GC in 2018. She was previously GC at Freescale Semiconductor and IP law director at Motorola before that.
She started her legal career in private practice at Quarles & Brady.
Hoffman thanked Wuamett for “all your trust and support and for helping me continue to grow along the way”.
In other in-house chipmaker moves, back in April Intel Corporation appointed Aparna Bawa from Zoom as chief legal and people officer, replacing CLO April Miller Boise.
And back in August 2024, US chipmaker Credo Technology Group hired Jim Laufman as CLO from Automation Anywhere, its second CLO appointment in less than a year. He replaced Kate Schuelke in the role.
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