Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> February 12, 2001
CLEMENT DE MEERSMAN has been the Managing Director of Deceuninck NV
since 1994. He took his degree in Civil Electrotechnical Engineer in
Leuven (1976) and Doctor in Applied Sciences (1980). After one year of
working at the University, he started his industrial career in a rubber
company which produced tires and technical products. He then left for
the Netherlands, where he was employed at a large chemical company as
Director Business Unit materials & finished products for the automotive
industry. Clement De Meersman has been working in the industry for 25
years, in R&D, operations, QA, Technical Service, Sales, Strategic
Planning, General Management, in both large companies and medium-sized
companies in Europe, the United States and the Far East. Profile
Mr. De Meersman: The company started as a one-man business in 1937,
manufacturing various plastic objects like buttons,
