Corporate Governance

Luc Vandewalle (°1944) has a degree in Economics from Gent University (Belgium). He joined the BBL (now ING Belgium) in 1968 as a university trainee. Assigned to the Credit Secretariat of the Kortrijk local head office in 1971, he subsequently became Head of the Operational Department of the previously mentioned local head office in 1977, before becoming Head of Middle-market Corporate Banking at the Gent local head office in 1981. He was thereafter successively appointed Head of the local head offices of Aalst-Sint-Niklaas (1983) and of Kortrijk-Roeselare (1986). He was appointed Director and member of the Executive Committee of BBL in December 1992. Since 1 January 2000, he is President and CEO of ING Belgium. Within ING Group, he is responsible for the South West Europe region, comprising Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Switzerland.
 
Mr. Vandewalle is currently Chairman of the Executive Committee ING Belgium S.A., Chairman of VZW Centrum voor Algemeen Welzijnswerk - CAW Stimulans, Kortrijk, Director of the Board of Befimmo SA/NV, Director of Sea-Invest, Director of Atcomex cy and Director of SA/NV Atcomex, Hamme. Director of N.V. Galloo, Director of Sioen Industries, Director of N.V. Arseus, Director of Besix and Director of Pinguin-Lutosa.

Walter Mastelinck (°1964) holds a Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications and Microprocessors (VHTI Technicum Antwerp). In 1988 he joined Toppower (formerly ICS Computers NV) where he became responsible for sales & marketing and was closely involved with the general strategy of the company. In 1996, he acquired one third of the shares of ICS Computers and FMS Europe (the former Transics NV). Today, Walter is a member of the board and CEO of the Company and her subsidiary companies. Walter is also a member of the board of Cassel BVBA and Evasion NV. During the previous five years Walter Mastelinck has also been, but no longer is, a director on the board of Transics Invest BVBA.

Tom Dechaene (°1959) holds a Master’s degree in Law from the Central Exam Commission in Belgium, a Master’s degree from Antwerp University and an MBA from INSEAD (France). Between 1986 en 1990 Tom Dechaene was at ING Brussels, primarily in Corporate Finance. Between 1991 and 1999 Tom Dechaene was an investment banker, first at Morgan Grenfell, then Deutsche Bank in London, specialising in Telecommunications, Media and Technology M&A and Equity Capital Markets transactions. From 2000 to 2001 Tom Dechaene was CFO of SurfCast Inc as well as a consultant to Deutsche Bank. Tom Dechaene is a member of the boards of Antigenics Inc (Nasdaq AGEN, independent director and member of the corporate governance committee and the audit committee), the Telindus Foundation and Carthagon BVBA. During the previous five years Tom Dechaene has also been, but no longer is, a director on the boards of Color Kinetics, Ikonisys Inc, and, through Carthagon BVBA, of Telindus NV.

Vladimir Lasocki (°1973) has a degree in business administration with a major in finance earned at the Lyon Graduate School of Business (France) and the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Solvay) and a Masters in Advanced European Economic Studies from the College of Europe (Bruges). Mr. Lasocki is currently a Managing Director at the Carlyle Group focused on investment opportunities in France, the Benelux and Central Europe. Prior to joining Carlyle in 2000, Mr. Lasocki was an Associate with Deutsche Bank’s principal investments group. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Lasocki was with the corporate finance group of Paribas in Paris, London and Prague. Mr. Lasocki is a member of the boards of directors of Marle International SAS and Wall Street Institute Education, SàRL. In the previous five years, Mr. Lasocki has also been, but no longer is, a director on the Boards of Financiere CAMECA SAS (Président du Comité Stratégique), Solsoft SA in France (Président du Conseil de Surveillance), Egencia SA in France (Vice-Président du Conseil de Surveillance), PipingHot Networks Ltd. trading as Orthogon Systems in the UK (Director) and PacketLight Networks Ltd in Israel (Director).

Peter Leyman (°1962) has a university degree in Applied Economical Sciences from the University of Ghent and a Masters Degree (MBA) in Financial Sciences from Vlerick Management School. He also attended the ‘Global Leadership Development Programme’ of Volvo Car Corporation and he is certifi ed at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration (University of Virginia) for the programme ‘Managing Critical Resources’. After working as a Controller, he began his varied career in Volvo Cars in Gent in 1988. He had several positions within the Human Resources area. He started as Compensation and Benefi ts Manager and after six years he was appointed Manager Industrial Relations. Since 1996, he was member of the Executive Committee of Volvo Cars Gent as Director Human Resources and Organisation. From 1 July 2001 until April 2007, he was Managing Director of the Volvo Cars Ghent plant. Within that period he also became the Chairman of Agoria Easters and Western Flanders (March 2004 – April 2007) and Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Eastern Flanders (May 2006 – April 2007). Actually, Mr. Leyman is Managing Director of Vergokan International NV. Mr. Leyman is a member of the board of directors of Automobiel Center Gent NV, Attentia Group VZW, Attentia ICT NV, 4ESys NV, Gourmet Invent NV, Internationale Jaarbeurs Vlaanderen VZW, VKW Methena VZW and Kamer van Koophandel Oost- Vlaanderen VZW. In the previous five years, Mr. Leyman has also been, but no longer is, a director on the boards of Volvo Cars NV, , Mensura Gemeenschappelijke Kas and Agoria VZW.

Rudy Everaert (born 01.07.1943) has an impressive international background and extensive experience in General Management, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Transportation and Sales & Marketing. This has come through working at various companies (TNT Europe, Nedac Sorbo Group, Damon Associates (USA), Giraud International, Avery-Dennison, AMP, Press Shop, Allibert s.a. , …). He has proven to be successful in re-engineering, re-organizing and Project Management. With effect from June 17th 2010, Mr Everaert joined the Transics Board of Directors as a Director, representing ING AM Insurance Companies BV, acting in this capacity as investment manager on behalf of the investment fund ING Quoted Equity Fund.

Walter Mastelinck (°1964) holds a Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications and Microprocessors (VHTI Technicum Antwerp). In 1988 he joined Toppower (formerly ICS Computers NV) where he became responsible for sales & marketing and was closely involved with the general strategy of the company. In 1996, he acquired one third of the shares of ICS Computers and FMS Europe (the former Transics NV). Today, Walter is a member of the board and CEO of the Company and her subsidiary companies. Walter is also a member of the board of Cassel BVBA and Evasion NV. During the previous five years Walter Mastelinck has also been, but no longer is, a director on the board of Transics Invest BVBA.

Gertjan De Creus (°1968) holds a Master in Economics (Antwerp Business School). He started his career as an auditor at Coopers & Lybrand (PWC). In 1995 he became Group Controller of Sidcenter, the coordination centre of the Sidmar Group. In 2000 he was hired as General Manager and later Managing Director by the Sanac Groep, a leading Belgian distributor to the Agro and Garden Sector, and became CEO in 2002. At the end of 2005, he sold the company to the market leader, Groep Aveve. He has left the Sanac Group to join Transics on 30 April 2007.

Ann Braet (°1970) holds a Master in Economics (Hasselt University). She started her career as a financial controller at Pidy NV, a food company. In 2000, she became the Financial Director in Belgium of Clama Mattress Ticking NV, an export-oriented textile company. In March 2004 she was hired by Transics as Financial Officer.

Patrick Bustraen (°1968) holds a Master in Science (Electronics, IHR – BME at Ghent, Belgium). He started his career as a Software-Hardware Integration Tester at Siemens. After a short interim period with the pre-production team at Barco, Patrick joined Transics in February 1993. Since the beginning of 1998, Patrick has been focussing on R&D and Technical Product Management.

Erwin Heyse (°1961) holds a Master in Science (electro-mechanics, Ghent University) and worked for Hewlett Packard in diverse sales, marketing and sales management functions. He also held various management positions within Unisys, Real Software and Stater (part of ABN AMRO). Erwin joined Transics in October 2005 as Sales & Marketing Officer.

Dirk Staelens (°1969) holds a Master in Science (Electronics, College of Ostend) with a specialisation in data communications technology. In 1991, he was involved in the start-up of a project for TEM Electronik in Chur (Switzerland) for the implementation of telecommunications software in microcontroller systems. In 1992, he joined Siemens, where he was responsible for the implementation of test systems. In 1993, he joined the Transics R&D team. Since November 1999, Dirk is responsible for Transics’ Customer Care department.

Mario Haneca (°1972) holds an MBA from the Vlerick Management School in 2002 and received his Telecom Engineering Degree from the Ghent University College in 1995. He has started his career as Field Application Engineer at Alcom Electronics. Afterwards, he has worked as Business Development Manager at Ernst&Young and has held Senior Account Manager positions at Barco and Alcatel. Prior to his current function, he has held different positions within Transics’ Sales and Product Marketing Teams for more than 3 years.

Bart Verhaeghe (born in 1964) started his professional career in 1988 as a Sales Manager Safety Consult. One year later, he became an Account Manager at Lernout & Hauspie, where he moved up the hierarchical ladder to Manager Sales and US Operations and Vice-President of Sales. In 1997, he joined Haghedooren & Verhaeghe as a Managing Director. Between 1998 and 2001, he was a Management Consultant for FLV Services and FLV Fund, S.A.I.L. Trust and Valuesource. Since 2002, he has been working at Transics: first as a Strategic Alliances Manager and then as a Sales Manager. After a sabbatical during which he sailed around the world, Bart came back to Transics in 2010 in the role of Vice-President of Strategic Alliances.