IQE plc announced the appointment of Americo Lemos as Chief Executive Officer (?CEO?), starting on 10 January 2022. The Board's decision to appoint Mr. Lemos follows an extensive and rigorous search process led by Phil Smith, interim Executive Chairman of IQE. With over two decades of managerial experience working with multi-national tech companies, Americo has the skills necessary to lead IQE into the next phase of its evolution, further capitalising on the Group?s position as the scaled global epitaxy leader. Americo joins IQE from the executive team at GlobalFoundries Inc. (?GF?). Prior to this, he held executive positions at globally-renowned technology companies including Qualcomm and Intel, having also worked at Flextronics, Texas Instruments and Skyworks, amongst others.