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9 March 2009

 

CrystalQ appoints ex-Philips lighting execs as supervisory board member and chairman

Sapphire substrate maker CrystalQ Group B.V. of Stadskanaal, The Netherlands has appointed Dr Peter Stormberg to its supervisory board and Peter W van Strijp as the supervisory board’s chairman.

van Strijp has extensive expertise from a long-standing career in the lighting industry (both conventional and solid-state lighting), including as executive VP of Philips Lighting. Until his retirement in early 2008, he was CEO of Philips Lighting’s Solid State Lighting business unit, including acting as a board member at LED maker Lumileds and being directly involved in several of Philips Lighting’s LED-related acquisitions. He currently serves on the boards of several companies in the LED value chain.

van Strijp has a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Eindhoven as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Stormberg has more than 30 years experience in R&D in various lighting technologies and, until his recent retirement, was chief technology officer of Philips Lighting, responsible for the R&D strategy for both conventional and solid-state lighting technologies.

He was also involved in Philips Lighting’s acquisitions and the definition of its Intellectual Property strategy. He represented Philips Lighting on several standardization committees and on the board of the European technology platform Photonics21, where he chaired the working group ‘Lighting & Displays’. Stormberg has a Master’s degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, both from the Technical University Aachen, Germany.

The extensive knowledge of the LED market and the industry connections of both Stormberg and van Strijp will add great value to CrystalQ, reckons CEO Joris Barendregt.

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