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Bart Van Coppenolle (°1970), President and Chief Executive Officer
He co-founded Metris and heads the company since its inception and was Chairman of the board of directors until 21 November 2006. He holds degrees in production engineering and philosophy. Before founding Metris, he was an engineering researcher at K.U. Leuven.
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Luc Verstuyft (°1961), Chief Financial Officer
Luc Verstuyft occupied between 2002 and July 2007 the CFO position at Resilux, an international group listed on Euronext Brussels since 1997 active in the manufacturing and sales of PET preforms and bottles. At Fortis Bank, where he worked for almost 15 years, he occupied several functions of which Head of Corporate Finance. He holds a Master of Economic Sciences and a Master of Business Administration.
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Philippe Vandormael (°1973), Chief Operating Officer
Philippe Vandormael has a master degree in engineering from the K.U. Leuven. Before joining Metris, he worked as an engineering researcher at the K.U. Leuven. At Metris he is COO, directing sales, operational marketing and operations.
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Lieven De Jonge, Chief Information Officer
Lieven De Jonge co-founded Metris. He started his professional career as a Scientific Researcher at K.U. Leuven, where he headed the research group from which Metris has spun off. He holds a master in mathematics from K.U. Leuven. Over the years, Lieven De Jonge gained valuable experience in R&D management, marketing, technology planning and assessment, people management and operations, and has been responsible for technology, marketing, operations as well as company acquisition and integration management within the Metris group. Prior to his assignment as Managing Director of the Belgian site, he was Managing Director of the Metris Virginia and UK/ROW sites. Currently, Lieven De Jonge serves Metris as Chief Information Officer (CIO), responsible for streamlining information flows and heading Metris’ regional Managing Directors.
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Alain Brackenier, Managing Director Europe & Asia
Alain Brackenier has an extensive career in sales and commercial management in testing and metrology industries. He joined Metris at the time of the acquisition of Krypton where he was Vice President Sales & Marketing. Previously, he was Regional Manager at LMS where he served for over 10 years in a variety of technical, business development, sales and management positions. He holds degrees in engineering and finance.
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Myles Richard, Managing Director North America
Myles Richard has served LK MSI, the LK sales and services company for the US, as chief executive officer since October 2001. His experience spans the diverse spectrum of CMM technologies. After joining LK in 1986 he worked inside the service and operations departments for more than 12 years. Prior to LK, his career included design engineering, logistics and customer service. His most significant LK accomplishments include establishing a successful customer service culture and pioneering retrofit solutions for customer’s technology, thus creating new market opportunities for LK products since 1991.
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Andy Cumming, Managing Director Global Manufacturing
Andy Cumming’s early career was in the General Electric Company during which a sponsored degree in mechanical engineering and comprehensive management training was undertaken. An extensive career in sales and commercial management has followed in high tech advanced manufacturing and metrology industries. Andy was a director of LK from 1999 to January 2006, initially as contracts director and from 2001 as sales and marketing director. He joined Metris in February 2005 and was the acquisition manager for the LK acquisition.
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Jos Jans (°1964), Executive Vice President Marketing
Before joining Metris in April 2006, Jos spent most of his career at LMS International. After serving in pre-sales and customer services, he held several positions in product management and marketing communications. In his last function he was responsible for setting up and rolling out company wide marketing programs for the automotive industry. In addition, he worked for two years as a product manager at Fujitsu Siemens Computers. Jos holds a masters degree in mechanical engineering from the K.U. Leuven, and studied business-to-business marketing at EHSAL in Brussels.
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Filip Geuens (°1970), Executive Vice President Engineering
Filip Geuens has a degree of electro-mechanical engineering of the KULeuven and a Postgraduate Operations Management. He spent his entire career in metrology: first at Krypton as application engineer, Vice President Sales Support and COO. He joined Metris at the time of the acquisition of Krypton. He is currently responsible for the development of all product lines.
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Koenraad Van der Elst (°1961), Executive Vice President Legal
Koenraad Van der Elst started in 1984 as a barrister at the Bar of Dendermonde.
In 1991, he joined Fortis Bank as director of 'legal documentation' in the Investment Banking department. From 2002 to 2005 he was Secretary General & General Counsel of the Punch group and member of the Executive Committee. In 2004 he also became President of the Supervisory Board of Punch Technix and served as Secretary of the Board of Punch Graphix. He also served as Secretary General and member of the Executive Committee of Koramic Investment Group. Since June 1, 2007, Koenraad serves as Executive Vice President Legal at Metris.
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