Christophe Fouquet: Leading the World's Most Indispensable Company

There is exactly one company on Earth that can build the machines advanced chipmakers need to make the world's most powerful semiconductors. In this episode of A Bit Personal, Jodi Shelton sits down with Christophe Fouquet, President and CEO of ASML, to go behind the scenes of a company most people have never heard of — and can't live without. Christophe joined ASML in 2008 as an engineer with a physics degree from Grenoble, and spent sixteen years working his way up through the company he now leads, including the years spent industrializing EUV lithography, the breakthrough technology that made today's AI chips possible. We talk about what it took to bring that technology from a physics problem to a global industry standard, what it's like to inherit a company at the exact moment it became Europe's most valuable, and the weight of leading an organization sitting at the center of the world's most consequential geopolitical fault lines. Christophe opens up about the mentors who shaped his path, the responsibility that comes with being the one company an entire industry depends on, and what it means to lead with restraint when the whole world is watching your next move. This is a conversation about precision, responsibility, and what it takes to steward the technology quietly running the modern world. The episode is brought to you by J.P. Morgan and Keyser. Learn more at: jpmorgan.com/techib keyser.com

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