NEXT Biometrics Group ASA announced that the board of directors has appointed Ritu Favre as new CEO of the company. Favre has extensive experience from both the semiconductor and the fingerprint sensor industry. The present CEO, Tore Etholm-Idsøe will continue to work full time for the company as Chairman of the Board. Ritu Favre has worked fifteen years in Motorola as a Manufacturing Manager and Manager of Business Product Operations, before joining Freescale Semiconductor, where she worked for 11 years. Her last position in Freescale was Senior Vice President and General Manager RF Group. For the past two years Ritu Favre has been Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Biometric Products Division at Synaptics.