Biography

Marleen Mannekens was elected as a new director of Materialise NV since 2025. Ms. Mannekens has served as a financial counselor since November 2024, and previously, as a Partner at Grant Thornton Belgium from April 2021 to October 2024. Ms. Mannekens also serves as a guest-professor at Vives University of Applied Sciences since September 2024, a guest-professor at Ghent University since September 2023, and a guest-professor at Karel de Grote Hogeschool since September 2016. Further, from November 2012 to September 2020, Ms. Mannekens served as an Assurance Partner at Ernst & Young LLP. Ms. Mannekens serves as a member of the board of directors and audit committee of Euler Hermes North America Insurance Company (an affiliate of Alliance Trade), since October 2024 and as a director and chairperson of the audit and risk committee of Euler Hermes SA (commercial name Alliance Trade) since January 2020 and of Euler Hermes Group SAS since July 2021. She is also a member of the board of directors and member of the audit committee and finance committee of AZ Alma, a regional hospital, since January 2024 and a director of ‘Patronale Dienst voor Organisatie en Kontrole van de Bestaanszekerheidsstelsels’ since June 2023. Ms. Mannekens is a member of several technical committees at the Belgian Institute of chartered accountants (IBR/IRE) and was recently appointed as vice chair of the ICCI, which is a Foundation for information and research for public accountants.  Ms. Mannekens holds a Master’s degree in Business Engineering from Solvay Business School and a Master’s degree in Tax Management from Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management.