Maarten de Vries is Chief Information Officer and a member of the Group Management Committee.
He began his career with Philips in 1986 as Controller of the Dutch Sales Organization for Consumer Lighting in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. From 1987 onwards he held various Controller positions in the Netherlands and moved from 1992 2002 to the Asia Pacific region. Between 1996-2002 Maarten de Vries acted as Senior Vice President and CFO for Philips Consumer Electronics’ Monitors Business Unit in Chung-li, Taiwan. He became Senior Vice President and CFO for the DAP division in 2002, but returned to the Consumer Electronics division in 2003 as Executive Vice President and CFO.
On September 1, 2007 Maarten de Vries was appointed Chief Information Officer, Head of Corporate IT and member of the Group Management Committee.
Mr. de Vries was born in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in 1962. He holds a master degree in Business Economics from the University of Groningen, as well as a post-graduate degree at the Controllership Education from the Vrije University of Amsterdam.
He is married, with two children. |