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was elected a member of the Supervisory Board in May 2000. Mr. Danneels served most recently as Groups Vice President of STMicroelectronics. Prior to that, he was Corporate Executive Vice President of Alcatel NV and Chief Executive Officer of Alcatel Microelectronics. He spent 25 years in Alcatel in different management functions of all major productlines. In January 2005 Mr. Danneels founded Essensium N.V., a spin-off from the research institute IMEC of which he was chairman since 2000. Currently Mr. Danneels serves as Chief Executive Officer at Essensium. Mr. Danneels holds a Ph.D. degree in engineering from the KULeuven, Belgium and a MBA degree from Boston University. | 