Andrea Cuomo was born in Milano, Italy in 1954 and studied at the Milano "Politecnico" in Nuclear Sciences, with a special focus on analog electronics.

He joined the Italian semiconductor manufacturer SGS in 1983 as a System Testing Engineer and, from 1985 to 1988, he held various positions up to Marketing Manager in the automotive, computer and industrial product segments within the Monolithic Microsystems Division of SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics, the company created in 1997 from the merger of SGS and Thomson Semiconducteurs (re-named STMicroelectronics in 1998). In 1989, when the Division became the Dedicated Products Group, Andrea Cuomo was appointed head of Strategy and Market Development. A special mission he has covered since then has been that of developing strategic alliances with top customers.

In 1994, he was appointed Vice-President responsible for Marketing and Strategic Accounts within the Headquarters and European region. In this position he had responsibility for corporate strategic marketing, which identifies future semiconductor trends and which develops advanced systems, also combining the diversified know-how and wide range technologies of the company. He also had responsibility for sales to the company's strategic accounts.

Building on this experience, in October 1998 he was appointed Vice-President responsible for the newly created corporate organization called Advanced System Technology (AST), with the mission to develop the advanced architectures that drive key strategic applications such as digital consumer, wireless communications, computer peripherals and smart cards, as well as the broad range of emerging automotive applications such as car multimedia.  Under his leadership, AST has played a key role in the creation of system knowledge to support ST’s system-on-chip (SoC) development and has made a major contribution in establishing ST’s pre-eminence in Mobility, Connectivity, Multimedia, Storage and Security, the core competences required to drive today’s Convergence markets.

With Andrea Cuomo’s appointment to Corporate Vice-President, General Manager, in January 2002, AST has the additional responsibility for the design of all new generations of general purpose microprocessors and DSP cores, along with their related compilers. He continues to initiate collaborative projects with customers, top-class universities and research institutions.
 

March 2003