Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies Elects Chris van Ingen as Executive Chairman and Adds Fourth Independent Director
08 April 2010 - 9:00PM
Business Wire
Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies, Inc. (BEST), a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR), today
announced that Chris van Ingen has been elected Executive Chairman
of the BEST board of directors. Furthermore, the board has been
expanded from six to seven members through the addition of newly
elected independent director Dr. Wolf-Dieter Emmerich.
Dr. Emmerich joins Brenda Furlong, Professor Thomas Hartkopf and
Chris van Ingen as the fourth independent director of BEST, in
addition to three other BEST directors Joerg Laukien, Tony Keller
and Frank Laukien.
Mr. van Ingen joined the BEST board of directors in October 2009
and has now succeeded Mr. Joerg Laukien as Chairman of BEST. Chris
van Ingen commented: “I am very pleased to be assuming an active
role within BEST as Executive Chairman, and I intend to work
closely with the management team as BEST accelerates its drive
towards its strategic goals:
(i) to become the leading provider of
superconductivity-enabled devices and tools for alternative energy
and ‘smart grid’ applications, (ii) to expand its position as a
leading global provider of enabling technologies and tools for ‘big
science’ infrastructure for fundamental energy and materials
research, (iii) to expand its position as the world’s broadest
technology platform supplier of advanced low-temperature
superconductors (LTS) and high-temperature superconductors (HTS),
and (iv) to provide unique, high-value superconducting technologies
and devices for various industrial and medical applications.”
Mr. van Ingen was President of the Life Sciences and Chemical
Analysis Group at Agilent Technologies from 2001 to 2007. Prior to
that, Mr. van Ingen was Vice President of Sales and Marketing of
Hewlett Packard’s Chemical Analysis Group and held several other
senior management positions at Hewlett Packard prior to 1996. Mr.
van Ingen is currently a board member of Symyx Technologies, and he
serves on the audit and compensation committees of the BEST board
of directors.
Dr. Emmerich, who is also an independent director on the
Bruker Corporation board of directors, will serve on the audit and
compensation committees of the BEST board of directors. He
currently serves as a consultant to Erich Netzsch Holding, the
parent company of Netzsch Instruments, a developer and manufacturer
of thermal analysis instruments headquartered in Selb, Germany.
Dr. Emmerich joined the Netzsch Group in 1970 and served in a
variety of capacities until his retirement in 2005.
Dr. Emmerich assumed worldwide responsibility for the Netzsch
Analyzing and Testing business unit in 1980 and was appointed to
the Executive Board of the Netzsch Group in 1995. Dr. Emmerich
currently serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the ANALYTICA
International Trade Fair, and on the board of the Bayreuth
University Society. Dr. Emmerich holds a Ph.D. in physics from
the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
About Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies, Inc.
Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies, Inc. (BEST) is a
subsidiary of Bruker Corporation. For more information on BEST,
please visit: www.bruker-est.com
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