Pr. Jean-Philippe Deschamps was appointed as a member of the Company's Board of Directors in March 2007. He is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at IMD in Lausanne Switzerland. Prior to joining IMD in November 1996 he was based in Brussels as a corporate Vice-President with Arthur D. Little and Chairman of the firm's technology and innovation management practice which he created in 1981. Before that he was Arthur D. Little's first European practice leader for strategy and organisation. He has thirty years of international management consulting experience throughout Europe North America Asia and the Middle East. He Graduated from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Paris and received his MBA from INSEAD and from the Harvard Business School. |