Cree Names Wessel VP Global Sales and Marketing

Cree, Inc. (Durham, NC): Thomas Wessel is now senior vice president of global sales and marketing. In this role, Wessel will report to Gregg Lowe and oversee sales and marketing for the Wolfspeed power and radio frequency and Cree LED components businesses.

Wessel brings more than 20 years of global sales and marketing leadership experience in the semiconductor industry, serving automotive, industrial, electronics and communications markets. He joins Cree from NanoSemi, Inc., a venture-funded spinoff from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he served as vice president of sales and marketing. Prior to that, he served as senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Analog Devices, Inc., a multinational semiconductor company specializing in data conversion and signal processing technology. His career also spans sales and marketing management roles at Texas Instruments and Atlantik Elektronik.

“Thomas has a history of success in sales, marketing and business leadership within the markets Cree serves,” said Gregg Lowe, CEO of Cree. “Cree’s Wolfspeed power and RF and LED component technologies are critical to the success of today’s most in-demand and evolving markets, such as the automotive industry’s transition to electric vehicles. We are confident Thomas will help us unlock Cree’s potential.”

Wessel holds an engineering degree in physics from the University of Applied Sciences Lübeck and completed the advanced management program at IESE Business School.