Rafael Sotomayor

Experience

Rafael Sotomayor is president at NXP Semiconductors, overseeing the company’s business lines, sales, manufacturing operations, China operations, research and development. As a member of NXP’s executive management team since 2020, Rafael has been instrumental in defining and implementing NXP’s strategy to be the leader in intelligent edge systems in automotive and Industrial & IoT (IIoT). Prior to being appointed president, Rafael was executive vice president and general manager of Secure Connected Edge. In his acting GM role, he remains responsible for embedded compute leadership for edge processing and systems solutions for the IIoT market, in addition to solutions across the company’s security and connectivity ecosystems. Rafael has 30 years of semiconductor industry experience. He joined NXP in 2014, holding a number of business line general manager roles across the company’s Mobile, Industrial and IoT segments.

Prior to joining NXP in 2014, Rafael was vice president of marketing at Broadcom in the wireless connectivity business, and prior to that, he was at Motorola and Intel.

Education

Rafael holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MSEE from Georgia Tech and a BSEE from Purdue University.