Geert Verbeek

Mr. Geert Verbeeck is the Chief Technology Officer Aperam and member of the Leadership Team with responsibilities for Health, Safety & Environment, Industrial Risk & Innovation and Purchasing, since April 2020. Prior to this function Mr. Verbeeck held the position of Chief Executive Officer Arcelormittal Poland since 2015.

Mr. Verbeeck started his career in ArcelorMittal in 1989. He took several positions in the domain of IT and Automation in the period of 1989 till 2004 in the sites of Arcelormittal Gent, Arcelormittal Bremen and TailorSteel Genk. In 2004 he became the head of the Automation department of Arcelormittal Gent.

From 2006 till 2014, he was the plant manager of the steel plant in ArcelorMittal Gent and in 2014 he became the Chief Operations Officer of Arcelormittal Gent.

Mr Verbeeck graduated as an Engineer in Computer Science at the KU Leuven university, specializing afterwards in medical image processing and artificial intelligence.

Mr Verbeeck is a citizen of Belgium.