Wolters Kluwer Nominates Sophie Vandebroek for Appointment to Supervisory Board
January 31 2020 - 4:00AM
Wolters Kluwer Nominates Sophie
Vandebroek for Appointment to Supervisory Board
January 31, 2020, Wolters Kluwer today
announced the nomination of Dr. Sophie Vandebroek for appointment
to its Supervisory Board. The nomination will be submitted to the
Wolters Kluwer Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on April 23,
2020. Ms. Vandebroek will succeed Ms. Fidelma Russo who stepped
down from the Supervisory Board at the end of 2019.
Ms. Vandebroek has held executive positions at IBM and Xerox as
well as other technology-based organizations. Most recently, she
was Chief Operating Officer at IBM Research and Vice President of
Emerging Technology Partnerships for IBM Corporation. Prior to
that, she served for over a decade as Chief Technology Officer of
Xerox Corporation. She started her career as a Belgian National
Science Foundation researcher at IMEC in Belgium.
Sophie Vandebroek is Board member of IDEXX Laboratories (U.S.),
an S&P 500 biotechnology company, where she serves as member of
the Finance and of the Nomination & Governance Committees. She
held board memberships at Analogic Corp. a leader in healthcare and
security technologies, PARC Inc., Nypro Corp., and was a member of
the Technical Expert Council at Cummins Corp.
Ms. Vandebroek has been a member of the Advisory Council of the
Dean of Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) since 2010 and is currently the Inaugural School of
Engineering Visiting Scholar at MIT. She is the holder of 14 US
patent and is inducted in the Women in Technology International
Hall of Fame. Ms. Vandebroek earned a Ph.D. Electrical Engineering
from Cornell University (U.S.) and a master’s degree Magna Cum
Laude in Electro-Mechanical Engineering from the KU Leuven
University, Belgium.
Chairman of the Supervisory Board Frans Cremers commented: “We
are very pleased to be able to nominate Sophie Vandebroek for
appointment to our Supervisory Board. We look forward to
benefitting from her extensive C-level experience with large
technology companies. She will bring deep knowledge in the creation
and application of technologies that drive growth.”
About Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer (WKL) is a
global leader in professional information, software solutions, and
services for the health, tax & accounting, governance, risk
& compliance, and legal & regulatory sectors. We help our
customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert
solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized
technology and services.Wolters Kluwer reported 2018 annual
revenues of €4.3 billion. The group serves customers in over 180
countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs
approximately 18,600 people worldwide. The company is headquartered
in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands.
Wolters Kluwer shares are listed on Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and
are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Wolters Kluwer
has a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary Receipt (ADR) program.
The ADRs are traded on the over-the-counter market in the U.S.
(WTKWY).
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