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About Pierre De Muelenaere
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- Pierre De Muelenaere (born 25 October 1958) is a Belgian entrepreneur and scientist.
- In 1987, after he received its Ph.D.
- in Applied Science from the Université Catholique de Louvain, he created the Belgian company IRIS with the financial help of the Belgian holding company Ackermans & van Haaren.
- Pierre De Muelenaere has been leading IRIS through all its development steps as President and CEO of the company.
- In 1999, the company was introduced on the stock market (Euronext).
- In 2008, the company, which has become a world-wide leader in the field of Intelligent Document Capture and Document Management had a staff of more than 500 people, with a revenue of more than €100 million. In 2009, Pierre De Muelenaere initiated a strategic partnership with Canon and a first investment of 17% of Canon in IRIS. In 2012, Pierre De Muelenaere negotiated the full takeover of IRIS by Canon. The company was the delisted from the stock market. Until the end of 2015, Pierre De Muelenaere remained President & CEO of IRIS and focused on the development of new technological and commercial partnerships with Canon. At the end of 2015, he decided to leave the company to start new projects. He has published a book on the IRIS adventure called "The IRIS Book: a 33 years story on Entrepreneurship from Belgium and what you can learn about it" (www.iris-book.com) This book is intended to share experience with the new generation of entrepreneurs. He has also started new project such as coach at the Yncubator (www.yncubator.be, the incubator for students-entrepreneurs at the Université Catholique de Louvain), member of the investment committee at the QBIC Venture Capital fund (www.qbic.be, a fund financing spin-offs of several Belgian universities), etc..
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