Lode Lauwers

Lode Lauwers is Senior Vice President Business Development and Strategy in IMEC, the nanoelectronics R&D Center in Leuven, Belgium.

His current focus is to architect new global R&D collaborations and related business models, in line with semiconductor technology initiatives in various continents currently in conception. In that role he also guides imec’s Corporate Business Development strategies in nanoelectronics.

Since he joined IMEC in 2005, he had various leading roles in IMEC’s technology business development and partner relation management. He has been driving over 2 decades the build-out, growth and business foundations of imec’s flagship core program with leading IC manufacturers, foundries, equipment and material suppliers and design and system houses.

Earlier, he has been general manager of an ASIC design house, part of a US-based ASSP provider for the telecom industry, and scientific advisor for government funding in local and European cooperative networks in micro-electronics and telecommunications.

He has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven.