Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> February 12, 2001
PIERRE MOTTET is currently Chairman of the Executive Committee of IBA SA
(Ion Beam Applications). He left IBM in 1987 to join a recently created
IBA in the position of Marketing & Sales Director, raising annual sales
rapidly to $15 million and putting into place a worldwide marketing and
sales team. In 1990, Mr Mottet took on CEO responsibilities, becoming
co-Director with Yves Jongen, President and founder of IBA. With Yves
Jongen, Mr Mottet built up the company, successfully leading IBA through
joint ventures, corporate partnerships and licensing issues.
Specifically, he transformed IBA from a small company selling
accelerator equipment to a global supplier of innovative solutions in
the area of health and well being, creating a worldwide network of 47
sites on three Continents. He took IBA public in 1998, managing two
equity increases and acquiring six different companies, all leaders in
complementary technologies, thereby consolidating IBA's world market
share in industrial Sterilisation & Ionisation, Advanced Radiotherapy
and Radioisotopes. Nominated 1997 Manager of the Year in Belgium, Mr
Mottet and Mr Jongen achieved a 15-fold increase in IBA sales figures
between 1995 and 2000. He serves as Director on the Board of Belgian
Industry. Prior to joining IBA, Mr Mottet was Sales Engineer for the
Information Network Services of IBM. Mr Mottet was awarded the IBM
Marketing Excellence Award, both in 1985 and 1986. Mr Mottet has a
Bachelor in Law and a Masters Degree in Business & Technology from the
University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Profile
business of Ion Beam Applications is.
Mr. Mottet: IBA was founded in 1986. We really started as a spin-off of
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