Chief Executive Officer, Nordic Semiconductor
Search every verified Vegard Wollan interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Vegard Wollan, CEO of Nordic Semiconductor, stated in interviews at CES 2025 that the company has reorganized its R&D into four product-centric teams covering short-range, long-range cellular, Wi-Fi, and power management. He said the restructuring was intended to improve engineering execution and customer focus. Wollan also discussed the launch of the nRF 54 series, describing it as a next-generation platform with increased processing performance and reduced energy consumption compared to previous products. Wollan reiterated the company's publicly stated growth ambition of achieving an average annual revenue growth rate of approximately 20% over the next five to six years. He also noted a target operating model aiming for an EBIT margin of around 25% over that period. In a December 2024 interview, Wollan acknowledged that the company's capital markets day, during which the stock fell 24%, was "frustrating," but expressed confidence in the growth plan and its execution.
“We have publicly said now that we expect and have growth ambitions for the five six years to come to be growing our top line revenues about 20% on an annual average growth rate.”
“We have reorganized into four product centric teams one for the short range business which is our main engine as well as the long range cellular business, Wi-Fi which is more on the early stages and our power management circuitry which is tailored into our wireless connectivity. So doing that we have now got more like...”
“we have publicly said now that we expect and and have growth Ambitions for the five six years to come to be growing our Topline revenues about 20% on an annual average growth rate”
“we have reorganized into four product Centric teams one for the short range business which is our main engine as well as the long range cellular business uh Wi-Fi which is more on the early stages and our power management agement circuitry which is tailored into our wireless connectivity s”
“We have outlined an ambitious growth plan which we also strategized a lot around and developed in 2024 and that growth plan is about next five to six years where we have the ambition to grow the company at least at 20% average growth rate year by year in the coming time and if you compare that to our peers in the indus...”
“One of the major things we have done in 2024 is to restructure already customer centric organization to become even much more customer centric. The way we have done that is to create four product centric business units and product teams which are the short range, long range, Wi-Fi and power management IC business units...”
“og så ble jo det en stor overraskelse og fikk veldig mye fokus og det må vi jo vedkjenne at at vi synes er litt frustrerende fordi at vi vi mener jo at vi helt bestemt har en veldig god vekstplan og vekstambisjoner som vi kommuniserte på den dagen. Nå har vi to måneder inn i execution på den planen og gått i gang så vi...”
“vi har en target operating modell på å nærme oss 25% ebitmargin over den her femårsperioden som vi viste planen for på kapitalmarkedsdag så vi har absolutt en ambisjon om å komme opp i en operating modell hvor vi har en ebit margin på cirka 25%.”
Paige West, Managing Editor, Electronic Specifier speaks with Vegard Wollan, CEO, Nordic Semiconductor about what they have on display at the show. Featuring demos of the Nordic Thingy:91X and a comparison of the nRF 54 L series compared to the popular nRF 52 series. 12:19 Demo: Compatison of the nRF 54 L Series vs the nRF 52 series 17:05 Demo: Nordic Thingy 91:X
Finansavisens Benedicte Storm Bamvik og Christer Teigen tar en prat med konsernsjef Vegard Wollan i Nordic Semiconductor om markedet, utsiktene og den famøse kapitalmarkedsdagen da kursen stupte 24 prosent. Med oss i studio er også investor Joachim Sverre, som har Nordic Semiconductor som sin største investering.
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