Martin De Prycker (b.
Sint-Niklaas
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, 16 January 1955) is a
Belgian engineer and businessman. He was until December 2008 the
CEO
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of
Barco, a Belgian display hardware manufacturer. He currently serves as CEO of
Caliopa, a spin-off of
Ghent University and
IMEC
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and is managing partner at Qbic fund.
Education
He graduated as a
MSc
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Computers
* Message Sequence Chart
* Microelectronics Support Centre of UK Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
* MIDI Show Control
* MSC Malaysia (formerly known as Multimedia Super Corridor)
* USB mass storage device class (USB MSC ...
in
electrical engineering
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(1979) and holds a
PhD PHD or PhD may refer to:
* Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification
Entertainment
* '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series
* ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic
* Ph.D. (band), a 1980s British group
** Ph.D. (Ph.D. albu ...
in
computer sciences (1982) from
Ghent University. In addition, he obtained an
MBA at the
University of Antwerp in 1992.
Career
He started his career at
Alcatel in 1982, at that time
ITT
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Communication
* Infantry-Tank Telephone, a device allowing infantrymen to speak to the occupants of armoured vehicles.
Mathematics
*Intuitionistic type theory, other name of Martin-Löf Type Theory
*Intensional type theory
B ...
. During his career at Alcatel, he held various key positions in Alcatel's research center in
Antwerp
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ATM, which resulted in a first world prototype in Telecom Geneva in 1991. In 1996, as head of the Access Business Unit, he led Alcatel's ADSL ''virtual company'' for the development of
ADSL. In 2000, he became
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and a member of the executive committee of Alcatel in
Paris. In February 2002, he became the CEO of
Barco, where he succeeded
Hugo Vandamme
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* ''Hugo'' (film), a 2011 film directed by Martin Scorsese
* Hugo Award, a science fiction and fantasy award named after Hugo Gernsback
* Hugo (franchise), a children's media franchise based on a ...
.
Martin De Prycker was teaching at
Boston University from 1988 to 1992 and at Ghent University from 1994 to 1999.
He is a member of the board of
Agoria and of
VOKA. In addition he is a member of the committee ' of the
Flemish Council for Science Policy
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and of the board of advice of the
GIMV.
Bibliography
* Martin De Prycker, ''
Asynchronous Transfer Mode: Solution for the Broadband ISDN'', Prentice Hall PTR; 3Rev Ed edition (23 August 1995),
Sources
Martin De Prycker wordt nieuwe CEO van BARCO(press release)
1955 births
Living people
Belgian businesspeople
Ghent University alumni
People from Sint-Niklaas
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