BELGIUM - Gimv strengthens tech team

Since 2005, Van Sande has served as chief technology officer of Umicore, a Belgian materials technology group. Prior to this, he was executive vice president of the advanced materials division and vice president of the electro-optic materials business unit at the company. In his new role he will assist Gimv in widening its cleantech portfolio.

Other members of the Advisory Board are: Gilbert Declerck (IMEC); Martin De Prycker (Barco); David Macaulay (Siemens); Leonard Schrank (president of the American chamber of commerce, Swift); Michel Akkermans (Clear2Pay, FICS); Stijn Bijnens (LRM, Ubizen); Yossi Kofman (Modem-Art); Yves de Talhouët (HP France); and Jan Oosterveld (IESE Business School and Philips).

Gimv expanded its business activities towards clean technology in 2007, carrying out a EUR 30m investment in a cleantech fund managed by Emerald Technology Ventures. The investor has since set up its own cleantech business unit cosisting of a 5-person team. Gimv cleantech's portfolio currently Greenpeak and VirtenSys.

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