koninklijke philips nv
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Executive Profile*

Background*

Mr. François Adrianus van Houten, Frans, has been Chief Executive Officer and President at Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV since April 2011. Mr. Van Houten has been Temporary Advisor to Management Board at ASM International NV since March 2009. Mr. Van Houten support ASMI's management board in its on-going efforts to ensure its has the strongest operational framework with which to withstand current extreme economic and industry conditions. He served as Chief Executive ... Officer of NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V. until January 1, 2009. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Philips Lighting (ad interim) at Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV until March 20, 2012. He served as an Acting Chief Executive Officer of Philips LumiLeds Lighting Company LLC. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of NXP B.V. (formerly Philips Semiconductors BV) from November 1, 2004 to January 1, 2009. He served as Chairman and Member of Management Board of Philips Semiconductors BV until January 2009. Mr. Van Houten served as Senior Vice President of Royal Philips Electronics of Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV. He served as Member of Board of Management at Koninklijke Philips Electronics Nv since April 1, 2006. He also served as Chief Executive Officer of Philips Consumer Electronics Business Groups, since 2002. Mr. van Houten served as Head of the Consumer Electronics division's business groups since 2002, based in Amsterdam, with responsibility among others for global business management, R&D, industry & supply chain, marketing, as well as OEM sales. He served as an Executive Vice President of Philips Consumer Electronics of Philips Electronics Asia Pacific Pvt. Ltd., Singapore. He served as the General Manager of Global Business Creation at Philips Consumer Electronics. He joined Philips in 1987 and in 1992. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Philips Airvision, a small in-flight entertainment start-up. From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Van Houten served as Vice-President International Sales & Operations of the Communication Network Systems division, at PKI in Germany, providing solutions to Telecom Operators. In 1996, he joined Philips Consumer Electronics in Eindhoven to set up the Disc Systems Business Unit, and to lead the global birth of two product categories: Audio CD Recording and DVD Video. Two years later, he also acted as Chief Operating Officer of the Digital Video Group in Palo Alto, California, before moving to Singapore in 1999 to become Executive Vice-President of Consumer Electronics for the regions of Asia Pacific and Middle East & Africa. He served as Vice-Chairman of the Board Of Directors and Director of LG Display Co., Ltd. (also known as L.G. Phillips LCD Co. Ltd.) since December 2003. He serves as a non-executive member of the supervisory board of LG. Phillips Displays Holding B.V. Mr. Van Houten serves as a Director of Philips Electronics Shanghai and Philips Electronics Indonesia. He served as a Non-Executive Director of Philips Electronics India Ltd. from July 22, 1999 to July 26, 2002. Mr. Van Houten received his undergraduate degree in economics, marketing and business management. He holds a Masters Degree in economics and Business Administration from Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

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