Eric Meurice

Eric Meurice is director within the Boards of NXP Semiconductors N.V. since April 2014, IPG Photonics Corp. since June 2014, UMICORE SA since April 2015 and Meyer Burger AG since May 2018.

Previously, Eric Meurice was the Chairman-CEO of ASML Holding N.V., an equipment manufacturer for the semi-conductor industry, from October 2004 to June 2013, and its Chairman until March 2014. Under his leadership, ASML became the world’s largest seller of lithography equipment, encouraging its largest customers to make capital and investment commitments unmatched in the industry. From 2001 to 2004, he was Executive Vice President of Thomson-RCA Television division, which merged the company with the TCL Corporation group, a leading Chinese consumer electronics company. From 1995 to 2001, he led Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and emerging markets in the EMEA region for Dell Computer. Before 1995, Eric Meurice acquired significant experience in the industrial and technological fields within ITT Semiconductors, Intel Corporation and Renault SA. He was also a director of Verigy Ltd. until its acquisition by Advantest Corporation in 2011, and ARM Holdings plc until March 2014.

Eric Meurice graduated from Ecole Centrale de Paris (France), and has a Master’s degree in economics from Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris (France), and an MBA from Stanford University (California, USA).