Hubert Jacobs Van Merlen
Director
Material Science
Bekaert
Belgium
Biography
Hubert Jacobs van Merlen (°1953) is an advisor to the Private Equity sector. From 1997 to 2014, he was President and CEO of IEE SA, Luxembourg, a leading company in the field of automotive safety sensors with manufacturing sites in Luxembourg and technical sales offices in the USA, Korea and Japan. He started his career in 1978 as auditor of KPMG (Houston) and became in 1981 Division Controller of the Drilling Fluids Division of Chromalloy American Corp. ( St. Louis, MO). In 1987 he transferred to Commercial Intertech Corp. (Youngstown, OH) as European Finance Director and was appointed in 1995 Sr. Vice President & CFO.
Research Interest
Material Science