Dr. Olaf Herzog

Former SVP, Corporate Supply Chain, Infineon; Former Director, AMD & Global Foundries

Dr. Olaf Herzog is a semiconductor manufacturing and factory automation executive with nearly four decades of experience in the industry. He most recently served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Supply Chain, Data and Digitalization Strategy at Infineon Technologies (2022–2026), following earlier roles at Infineon leading Factory Integration and Industry 4.0 implementation across the company’s wafer fab, assembly, IGBT, and final test operations worldwide.

Before joining Infineon in 2014, Olaf spent over a decade at AMD and Global Foundries in Dresden, where he held director-level roles spanning Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing Systems and Solutions, Operations, and Factory Automation – including leading the startup and ramp of factory automation systems for Fab30, a 200mm wafer fab, and later directing its conversion to 300mm production alongside broader Lean Manufacturing initiatives. He began his career conducting research at Fraunhofer IPA.

Olaf holds a PhD in Manufacturing Technology from the Technical University of Stuttgart and a Dipl.-Ing. (M.Eng.) in Manufacturing Technology from the Technical University of Munich.