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Julien De Wilde (°1944)
Mr. De Wilde was CEO of Bekaert Group from July 2002 to May 2006. From 1999 to 2002 he was executive vice-president of Alcatel Bell, with direct responsibility for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India, and he was also a member of the Alcatel executive committee in Paris. He joined Alcatel Bell Belgium in 1989 as a member of the management committee, with responsibility for strategy and general services. In 1988 he headed the research and business development center at Recticel. From 1969, Mr. De Wilde held various operational posts at Texaco, being appointed a member of Texaco’s European council in New York in 1987. Mr. De Wilde is an honorary chairman of Agoria, a member of the board of directors of Bekaert Group (Belgium), Telenet (Belgium), Agfa Gevaert Group (Belgium), KBC Bank (Belgium), and Bank van Breda. He is a member of the general assembly of the Association K.U. Leuven. Mr. De Wilde holds a degree in civil engineering from the K.U. Leuven. Julien De Wilde has been decorated a ‘Commander of the Order of Leopold II’.
Bart Van Coppenolle (°1970)
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. He is also director at Optidrive NV and Leuven Inc.
Bart Diels (°1969)
Bart Diels is an Investment Director within the GIMV Venture Capital ICT department, specialized in investments in the information and communication technology (ICT) area. He is responsible for the entire investment cycle, from deal sourcing, deal screening, due diligence, contract negotiation, board representation, follow-up and exit and this on an international level. He joined GIMV in 1995 and has now more than 10 years of experience as an investment professional with a focus on early stage, fast growing ICT companies. He started his career at the University of Antwerp as a research assistant financial management before joining Delta Lloyd Bank as an internal auditor. Mr. Diels is doctorandus in applied quantitative economics – financial economy and he holds a master of business administration and a master in corporate taxation. Mr. Diels is currently holding mandates in Clear2Pay NV (Belgium), Coreoptics (Germany) and DIS (Germany). He was responsible for attractive exits for GIMV like Business Architects, FICS, Filepool and LMS.
Alexis Bogaert (°1970)
Mr. Bogaert is senior investment manager with Dexia Private Equity (Dexia Bank Belgium). He has 8 years of private equity experience with focus on early stage and expansion financing of small and medium-sized enterprises as well as restructuring and change of management/ownership issues. He started his career at Dexia's small and medium-sized enterprises credit department focusing on international expansion finance for small enterprises followed by a two-year stretch as technology equities analyst at Dexia's dealing room. Mr. Bogaert holds board seats in various companies and funds in the medical devices, industrial manufacturing and services and environmental technology sector, both in Europe and the US. He is a board member of VRContext NV (Belgium), Sustainable Energy Ventures (Belgium), Equipnet Inc (US) and Organ Recovery Systems (US). He is also a member of the executive committee of Arkafund NV. Mr. Bogaert was one of the directors of Salyp NV (Belgium) that went bankrupt in 2004. Mr. Bogaert holds a master in criminology and a master in international politics from the K.U. Leuven. In addition he holds a master in corporate finance and financial accountancy.
Luc Vandenbroucke (°1950)
Mr. Vandenbroucke is the president of BarcoView, senior vice president of Barco NV and member of Barco NV’s executive committee. He joined the Barco Group in 1975 and assumed different functions in worldwide marketing and sales, with emphasis on new product definition, product introduction and internationalization. Successively, he was active as sales executive, sales manager, market director and commercial director. In 1986 he co-founded Barco Creative Systems and he is leading BarcoView since 1990, first as general manager and later as managing director and President. Mr. Vandenbroucke is member of several organizations including the Hogenheuvel College of the Department of Applied Economics of the K.U. Leuven, the Belgian Defense and Security Industry Group and Agoria Vlaanderen. He regularly gives lectures and seminars and holds a series of guest lectures on Strategic Management at the K.U. Leuven. Mr. Vandenbroucke is a member of the executive committee of Agoria Vlaanderen and is currently director in the following companies: BARCO Silex NV (Belgium), BARCO Silex SA (France), BarcoView Texen SA (France), BARCO Ltd (UK), Voxar (UK), Voxar Inc (US), BARCOView LLC (US), BARCO Inc (US), BARCO Federal Systems LLC (US), BARCO Electronic Systems Ltd (IRELAND), BARCO Co. Ltd (Japan), BarcoView Co. Ltd (Korea), BARCO PTE Ltd (Singapore), BARCO Ltd Taiwan (Taiwan), Flabel Corporation NV (Belgium), Management Consulting Leuven (Belgium), Crea & Athena (Belgium). He had mandates in Barco Orthogon AG (Germany), Voxar Inc (US) and BARCOVIEW PTE Ltd (Singapore). Mr. Vandenbroucke obtained a commercial engineer degree, quantitative business economics and informatics, at the K.U. Leuven in 1973 and a degree of expert in international trade at the International Trade Invest Institute, Antwerp, Belgium in 1977.
André Oosterlinck (°1946)
Prof. Dr. Ir. André Oosterlinck is Honorary Rector of the K.U. Leuven and president/chairman of the Association K.U. Leuven. In 1984 he was appointed full professor at K.U. Leuven and from 1984 to 1994 he was director of the division Electronics Systems Automatization and Technology (ESAT). He became vice-president for the exact sciences at K.U. Leuven in 1990 and was rector and president of the K.U. Leuven from August 1995 until July 2005. He has also been visiting professor at Utah University (1984) and ARC-IBM, San Jose, USA (1986-1996). Mr. André Oosterlinck is a founder or co-founder of ICOS NV (Belgium), Eyetronics NV (Belgium), Qmedit NV (Belgium) and Easics NV (Belgium). He is a member of the board of directors of Leuven Research & Development (Belgium), IMEC (Belgium), ICOS NV (Belgium), EASICS NV (Belgium), Agfa Gevaert NV (Belgium) and Medicim (Belgium). He is president of the board of Eyetronics NV (Belgium) and Essensium (Belgium). Mr. Oosterlinck was chairman of the board of directors at K.U. Leuven. In addition he was a board member of the European University Association (EUA), vice-president of the League of European Research Universities (LERU), and the chairman of the Coimbra Group of universities. André Oosterlinck graduated as a civil engineer at the K.U. Leuven in 1972 and obtained a Ph.D bio-computer science (1977) and a special Ph.D. electrical engineering (1981). He specialized in Pasadena U.S. (JPL-NASA) and at several American universities where he supported research in the area of information technology, knowledge engineering, signal analysis, robot vision and biomedical image interpretation.
Jean-Pierre Kruth (°1952)
Prof. Dr. Ir. Jean-Pierre Kruth is full professor at the K.U. Leuven, where he is responsible for production engineering research and education at the division PMA of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His activities involve CAD, CAPP, CAM, production processes, metal cutting, non-traditional machining, rapid prototyping, dimensional metrology, quality control and reverse engineering. Mr. Kruth is the recipient of the 1998 CASA/SME University LEAD Award. He worked at the Institut Technologi Bandung (ITB, Indonesia) from 1979 till 1982. Mr. Kruth was research engineer at the Scientific and Technical Center of the Belgian Metalworking Industry (CRIF/WTCM) and half-time consulting engineer at the national ‘Stand-by CAD/CAM’ service for industry (IWONL), until being nominate full-time at K.U. Leuven in 1987. He is a fellow member of CIRP (International Academy for Production Engineering) and SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn, USA). He is honorary member of the Romanian Society of Mechanical Engineers (RSME) and member of several other professional associations: IMEKO/BEMEKO (International/Belgian Measuring Confederation), K.VIV, BSMEE, BACAS). He has acted as founding member of the board of directors of MATERIALISE NV (1990-1997) and METRIS N.V. (1995-2003) and he has been on the board of Metris International Holding NV since 1998. Mr. Kruth promoted to electro-mechanical engineer at K.U. Leuven in 1975 and obtained his Ph.D. in applied sciences at K.U. Leuven in 1979.
Edward Barrientos (°1965)
Mr. Barrientos joined Arc Second in 1996 and headed the company as president and CEO. From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Barrientos served as managing director of Max Schlatterer GmbH & Co. KG, a leading German manufacturer of products for the food, drug and machine industry. From 1991 to 1993, Mr. Barrientos was an international marketing consultant for Management Partner GmbH, based in Stuttgart, Germany. He started his professional career with IBM in 1986, serving in a number of marketing-related positions. Mr. Barrientos holds a B.S. in management from Virginia Commonwealth University and a MBA from George Washington University.
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