Overview

• STMicroelectronics confirmed the death of Pistorio at age 89, noting he died this morning in Milan.
• After rising through Motorola, he took over SGS in 1980, orchestrated the 1987 merger with France’s Thomson, and later led ST to public listings in New York and Paris in 1994 and in Milan in 1998.
• His push to relaunch ST’s Catania site helped seed the Sicilian tech cluster widely known as the Etna Valley.
• He was a prominent advocate of environmental protection and corporate social responsibility and in 2005 founded the Pistorio Foundation to support children in developing countries.
• Italy’s minister of enterprises, Adolfo Urso, called Pistorio a visionary and proposed dedicating the integrated silicon‑carbide factory ST is building in Catania to him.