Newtec announced today that it has appointed, Martin De Prycker, the former CEO of Barco as an external member of its strategic committee. The strategic committee advises and assists the board of directors with company policy and strategy. Mr. De Prycker brings with him significant industry experience, and will be instrumental in assisting Newtec\u2019s continued international expansion as well as strengthening the skill set of the existing committee.<\/p>\n
Prior to joining Newtec, Mr. De Prycker was a long standing employee of Alcatel, where he founded the ADSL Broadband products division as well as holding the position of Chief Technology Officer. In 2002, he became CEO and board member of Barco, a global designer and developer of professional display and visualization solutions, where he introduced best practice across all divisions and significantly expanded the company\u2019s presence in North America and Asia.<\/p>\n
\u201cNewtec is a strong leader in a dynamic and fast-growing marketplace, and I am delighted to be a part of the company,\u201d said Mr. De Prycker. \u201cI hope to bring valuable experience of a breadth of business types and technology sectors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Serge Van Herck, CEO of Newtec said, \u201cWe are extremely happy that Martin has agreed to join the Newtec strategic committee. He has significant Board experience with several major companies and is member of a number of respected industry bodies such as the IBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology) and Agoria (Belgian Multisector Federation for the technology industry), as well as a strong history of business development and growth at Barco.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are confident that his presence will facilitate our continued growth and development at Newtec\u201d added Serge Van Herck.<\/p>\n
Mr. De Prycker holds a PhD in Computer Sciences and an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Ghent, as well as an MBA from the University of Antwerp. He holds numerous important patents in the field of ATM and data switching systems and is recognised as being one of Europe\u2019s prominent personalities in the field of new technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Newtec announced today that it has appointed, Martin De Prycker, the former CEO of Barco as an external member of its strategic committee. The strategic committee advises and assists the board of directors with company policy and strategy. Mr. De Prycker brings with him significant industry experience, and will be instrumental in assisting Newtec\u2019s continued […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}