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Executive Vice President of Worldwide Strategic Partnerships of IMEC and Memeber of Board of Directors

Imec is the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. The combination of our widely acclaimed leadership in microchip technology and profound software and ICT expertise is what makes us unique. By leveraging our world-class infrastructure and local and global ecosystem of partners across a multitude of industries, we create groundbreaking innovation in application domains such as healthcare, smart cities and mobility, logistics and manufacturing, and energy. As a trusted partner for companies, start-ups and universities we bring together close to 3,500 brilliant minds from over 70 nationalities. Imec is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium and also has distributed R&D groups at a number of Flemish universities, in the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, China, and offices in India and Japan. In 2015, imec's revenue (P&L) totaled 415 million euro and of iMinds which is integrated in imec as of September 21, 2016 52 million euro. Further information on imec can be found at www.imec.be. Stay up to date about what Y=E_Y=E_s happening at imec with the monthly imec magazine, available for tablets and smartphones (as an app for iOS and Android), or via the website http://magazine.imec.be

Senior Executive with solid strategy and operations background and solid track record of running and growing billion dollar P&L while keeping employees motivated and hyper productive. Skilled at driving market share and growing top line revenue while managing the bottom line and growing margins with committed and satisfied customers for publicly traded companies. Exceptional background in strategic and operational planning, M&A both on buy and sell side, business integration, disciplined business management and cohesive team building, and highly successful global partnerships with one of the largest C suite personal network in high technology around the globe. Professional successes include leading turnaround strategies for European, Japanese and American corporations, taking them from stagnation and red ink to divisional growth and earnings leadership; garnering industry-wide recognition for building key, long-term and collaborative strategic business relationships that have driven product development and market expansion at award-winning levels. Areas of strength and experience: P&L management while driving market share, revenue and profit growth Corporate management and business development on a global level M&A, from market identification and due diligence to acquisition and business integration Business process, strategy development, implementation Process and productivity improvement; operational planning Talent management, development and retention in cross-cultural environments Executive and C level relationship development and management.