Ms de Virgiliis was elected as a member of the Supervisory Board on May 18, 2020, for a period of four years. Ms de Virgiliis will not seek to be re-elected for a second term as Supervisory Board member owing to her other commitments, as announced by ASM on February 16, 2023.

Ms de Virgiliis has more than 25 years' experience in the tech industry. She is a successful senior executive with proven transformation and growth track records. She was with STMicroelectronics from 2001 to 2015, and then with Infineon Technologies from 2015 to 2017, where she held various senior executive officer and global general-management roles. From 2017 to 2019, Ms de Virgiliis fulfilled the role of chief strategy officer at CEA, the French Atomic & Alternative Energy Commission. 

She is an experienced non-executive director in the energy and technology spaces. Since April 2022, she has been serving as Chair of Snam, one of the leading European players in the energy infrastructure and services industry. Since February 2023, she has been serving as non-executive director at Air Liquide SA. and since April 2023 at George Fischer AG.

Deeply passionate about the energy transition and industry transformation in alignment with the Paris agreement, Ms de Virgiliis is the co-founder and the Chair of Chapter Zero France a non-profit association of directors – under the auspices of the World Economic Forum – as part of the global Climate Governance Initiative.

Ms de Virgiliis has a master’s degree in electronic engineering summa cum laude from the University of Turin (Politecnico di Torino). She is an Italian and French national.