Executive Committee

Jurgen Laudus is currently the Vice President of Materialise Manufacturing. Mr. Laudus joined us in August 2001 as a project manager and became the Rapid Tooling Manager of our UK office in 2003. For two years, Mr Jurgen was responsible for both our Rapid Tooling sales support and production managemen....More >>

Conny Hooghe represents SoHo Services as the Global HR Director for Materialise since September, 2017. She holds a Master of Industrial Psychology from the University of Ghent. Previously she held several HR management positions within technologically oriented or IT companies such as Wolters Kluwer, F....More >>

Carla Van Steenbergen is the Chief Legal Officer at Materialise, and also functions as the company’s Compliance Officer and secretary of the Board of Directors. After graduation, she worked for three years at the Brussels-based law firm Marx Van Ranst Vermeersch & Partners, and temporarily moved t....More >>

Brigitte de Vet-Veithen has been the Vice President of Materialise Medical since June 2016, as a representative of De Vet Management bvba. Mrs de Vet-Veithen has almost 20 years of experience in the healthcare and life sciences sector. She has worked in various management roles for Johnson & Johns....More >>

Wilfried Vancraen has served as one of our directors and as our Chief Executive Officer since founding Materialise in July 1990. Mr. Vancraen previously worked as a research engineer and consultant at the Research Institute of the Belgian Metalworking Industry, where he was introduced to 3D Printing. ....More >>

Peter Leys has been the Executive Chairman of Materialise since 2013. Previously, from 1990 to 2013, Mr. Leys was Corporate Finance Partner at the Brussels office of Baker & McKenzie CVBA, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets. Mr. Leys lectures a mergers and acquisitio....More >>

Hilde Ingelaere has served as the Executive Vice President of Materialise Medical since January 2011. Since joining our company in 1990, Ms. Ingelaere has managed several staff departments, including human resources, finance and legal departments. She became one of our directors in December 1997 as a ....More >>

Johan Pauwels has served as an Executive Vice President of our company since January 2011 and has been with our company since our founding. In 1990, Mr. Pauwels completed his Master’s thesis on stereolithography on the very first 3D printing machine at Materialise. After graduating in 1991, Mr. Pauwel....More >>

Bart Van der Schueren has served as an Executive Vice President of our company since January 2011 and as our Chief Technology Officer since 2016. In February 2022, he also assumed the position of Vice President of the Materialise Software segment. Prior to joining Materialise, Mr. Van der Schueren was....More >>

Johan Albrecht has represented Alfinco BVBA as our Chief Financial Officer since August 2015. Mr. Albrecht joined Materialise from BARC NV, a global central laboratory that supports the pharmaceutical and biotech industry in the development of new drugs, where he served as Chief Financial Officer betw....More >>