Franz J. Fink

Dr. Franz J. Fink joined Maxwell Technologies, Inc., as President and Chief Executive Officer in May 2014. Immediately prior to joining Maxwell, Dr. Fink was an independent business consultant, assisting companies in the industrial and automotive markets with business optimization and growth initiatives. From 2006 to 2012, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Gennum Corp. — a leading supplier of high-speed analog and mixed-signal semiconductors for the optical communications, networking and video broadcast markets — which was listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange before being acquired by Semtech Corp. in March 2012. From 2003 to 2006, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Wireless and Mobile Systems Group of Austin, Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. From 1991 through 2003, he held a series of senior management positions in the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola Corp. in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. He currently serves as a director and is a member of the governance committee of Pason Systems Corp. He holds a doctorate in natural sciences from the department of computer-aided design, and a master’s degree in computer science and electrical engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany.