Ms. Pope serves as Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives and UX at Renesas Electronics Corporation. She has held her current role since January 2025. She leads the recently established UX organization which builds on Renesas’ strong customer relationship and further enhances customer experience by providing a common interface with customers. The UX Group acts as the voice of the customer across the four product groups, as well as the Software & Digitalization Group. Under her leadership, the organization integrates Renesas’ web, marketing functions and system solutions to further elevate the company’s customer experience. She is also responsible for driving strategic initiatives aimed at driving economies of scale across the business.
Previously, she held the position of Senior Vice President and CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer) at Renesas, appointed in September 2022. As Renesas’ first CHRO, she elevated Renesas’ talent strategy and workplace environment to a level befitting a truly global semiconductor company. Specifically, she achieved significant success in areas such as talent acquisition and management, promoting the Renesas Culture, enhancing compensation and benefits, and advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I).
Ms. Pope joined Renesas in August 2021 with the acquisition of Dialog Semiconductor Plc. Ms. Pope is a business focused HR executive with extensive international experience in talent planning, compensation and benefits, change management, mergers and acquisitions and global talent acquisition.
Ms. Pope began her career as an actuarial consultant at The Wyatt Company and then KPMG before joining IBM Corporation in 1998 where she worked in New York and Paris holding various HR roles. Ms. Pope joined American Express Company in New York in 2003 and held HR roles spanning New York, Sydney and London.
In May 2017, Ms. Pope joined Dialog Semiconductor Plc as SVP, HR and held that position until the acquisition of Dialog by Renesas.
Ms. Pope holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Psychology from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas and is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries.
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