As vice president and general manager of Xilinx's CPLD business, Wolsheimer oversees product planning, design, software, operations and marketing. 

Wolsheimer previously served as vice president of product technology at Xilinx where he was responsible for product engineering, process and packaging technology development, semiconductor foundry relationships and reliability. Earlier he served as senior director of product development. He joined Xilinx in 1991 as director of technology development. 

Prior to Xilinx, Wolsheimer was manager of technology development at LSI Logic and held several marketing and R&D management positions at Philips. He has three US patents at Xilinx and has published numerous papers for industry conferences and technical trade journals. 

Wolsheimer holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from Delft University in the Netherlands.  He also serves on the board of directors for the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA).