Supervisory Board biographies
The Supervisory Board supervises and advises the Management Board and Executive Committee in the execution of their tasks and responsibilities. Find out their bios and expertise below.
Pauline van der Meer Mohr - Chair of the Supervisory Board
Ms Van der Meer Mohr was elected as a member to the Supervisory Board on September 29, 2021, for a period of four years and was appointed as Chair of the Supervisory Board as of May 16, 2022. It is proposed to the Annual General Meeting of May 12, 2025 to reappoint her for another four years.
Pauline van der Meer Mohr is a seasoned non-executive director and brings four decades of experience in leadership positions in multinational businesses and academia. She started her career as a lawyer before making a career at the Royal Shell group from 1989 to 2004. After that she became the Group HR Director of TNT N.V. followed by fulfilling the role of Senior Executive Vice President and Head of Group HR for ABN AMRO Bank N.V. She was President of the Executive Board of Erasmus University Rotterdam from 2010 until 2016. During this period, she was also a member of the Banking Code Monitoring Commission.
In the recent past, Ms. Van der Meer Mohr served as non-executive director of London-listed HSBC Holdings Plc and Nasdaq-listed Viatris Inc., was a member of the supervisory boards of Dutch-based ASML Holding N.V. and DSM N.V., and chaired the Supervisory Board of EY Netherlands LLP. She also chaired the Dutch Monitoring Committee Corporate Governance from 2019 until January 2023. Until last year, she was also a member of the Advisory Board of the Netherlands Environmental Planning Bureau PBL and the Capital Markets Committee of the Authority for Financial Markets (AFM). Ms. Van der Meer Mohr currently serves as member of the supervisory boards of the Euronext-listed NN Group N.V. (deputy chair) and Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V.
Ms. Van der Meer Mohr has a master’s degree in law from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, was admitted to the bar in 1988, and has a master in advanced dispute resolution from the University of Amsterdam. She is a Dutch national.
Martin van den Brink - Member of the Supervisory Board
Mr. van den Brink was elected as a member of the Supervisory Board on May 13, 2024, for a period of four years.
Martin brings more than three decades of experience and leadership in the semiconductor industry. After he joined the then newly founded ASML as an engineer in 1984, Martin became Vice President Technology (CTO) in 1995. In 2013, he was appointed Chief Technology Officer and President. In his leading role at the company, he was key to driving ASML’s growth and technological innovations that have helped shape the entire semiconductor industry. In the autumn of 2023 Martin announced his retirement from ASML, as of April 2024.
Martin has received many awards for his contributions to technology innovation and the semiconductor industry, including the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award, the Robert N Noyce Medal and an honorary doctorate from the University of Amsterdam and Eindhoven. He's also a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion (Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw).
Martin earned a degree in electrical engineering from HTS Arnhem (HAN University of Applied Sciences) and a degree in physics from the University of Twente. He is a Dutch national.
Marc de Jong - Member of the Supervisory Board
Mr De Jong was elected as a member of the Supervisory Board on May 28, 2018, for a period of four years and reappointed for a period of four years on May 16, 2022.
Marc was CEO of LM Wind Power A/S until April 2018. Prior to that, until 2009, he was a member of the Executive Management Team of NXP Semiconductors. After that, until 2013, he was responsible for professional lighting solutions at Philips Lighting. At the same time, he was a member of the Group Management Committee of Philips.
Marc is currently a member of the Supervisory Boards of Fugro N.V. (where he is also a member of the Audit Committee and Chair of its Technology Committee), a Dutch-listed company, Nissens A/ S, based in Denmark, and FiberSail SA based in Portugal. He is also Chair of the Supervisory Board of and of the Nomination Committee, as well as member of the People & remuneration committee, of BDR Thermea Group B.V. He is also Chair of the Advisory Board of Sioux B.V., venture partner of Forward.One, member of the advisory boards of SevenGen Investment Partners, Sentech B.V., Cryosol-World B.V. and strategy advisor to the board of BB Group – KUMA.
Marc holds a master’s degree in physics and mathematics from the VU University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA, executive program) from Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Rochester, in the United States. Marc is a Dutch national.
Stefanie Kahle-Galonske - Member of the Supervisory Board
Ms Kahle-Galonske was elected as a member of the Supervisory Board in May 2017 and reappointed for a period of four years on May 17, 2021. It is proposed to the Annual General Meeting of May 12, 2025 to reappoint her for another year.
Stefanie Kahle-Galonske holds since 2016 the position of Group Chief Financial Officer at Egon Zehnder, the Swiss based privately held executive search and leadership consultancy firm and is currently a member of the Supervisory Board of Smart Photonics Holding B.V. Previously, she was between 2013 and 2016 the Chief Financial Officer at Markem Imaje AG, part of Dover Corporation, a global manufacturer of industrial printers and consumables for the packaging sector.
Ms. Kahle-Galonske has extensive experience in the semiconductor industry as she worked for many years in different roles at NXP Semiconductors N.V., where she, inter alia, served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of several business units. Ms. KahleGalonske was previously also a non-executive board member of Micronas Semiconductors AG in Switzerland and Nu-Tune Singapore PTE Ltd.
Mrs. Kahle-Galonske graduated in Economics at Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany and is a CPA since 2002. She is a German and Swiss national.
Didier Lamouche - Member of the Supervisory Board
Mr Lamouche was elected as a member of the Supervisory Board on May 18, 2020, for a period of four years.
Until the end of 2018, Didier was the President and CEO of IDEMIA (formerly Oberthur Technologies), the world leader in cyber security and digital identity technologies. He previously served as COO of ST Microelectronics (NYSE, Euronext, Milan) from 2010 to 2013 and President and CEO of ST-Ericsson until 2013. Prior to that, he was Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Euronext-listed Bull Group from 2005 to 2010. Before that, Didier held several senior executive positions in the semiconductor industry, among which Vice President for IBM global S/C operations.
Didier has held non-executive positions on the public boards of ACI Worldwide, Atari, Soitec and STMicroelectronics.
He is currently non-executive director and Chair of the Board at Quadient, (Euronext), a non-executive director of the Board of Adecco since 2011 (SIX). Moreover, he is founder of DL T Consulting (French non-listed company), chairman of the Advisory Board of Utimaco (German non-listed company), director of Imagination Technologies Group Ltd. (UK non-listed company) and Associate Director of Granla (Belgian non-listed company).
Didier graduated in 1981 from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon as an engineer, and has a PhD in semiconductor technology. Didier is a French national, and Chevalier of Legion of Honor.
Tania Micki - Member of the Supervisory Board
Ms. Micki was elected as a member of the Supervisory Board on May 13, 2024, for a period of four years.
Tania brings more than 20 years of experience in finance leadership roles with international innovative companies. Since 2020 she is CFO and member of the Management Board of Tecan, a leading provider of laboratory automation products and solutions for life science research, diagnostics and the medical market. Previously, from 2010 until 2020, she held various roles at Sulzer AG including Chief Risk Officer and Group Internal Audit Head, and CFO Global Markets. Before joining Sulzer, Tania held senior financial positions at Monsanto, Gate Group, General Mills, and Pillsbury in Switzerland, the UK, Australia, Poland and Russia.
In addition, since 2021, Tania has held a non-executive position at Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne as a member of the Board of Directors, Chair Audit & Risk Committee.
Tania holds an MBA from Insead. She also graduated from ESCP (École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris), and she holds a Bachelor’s degree in Russian from the Paris X University in Nanterre (France). She is a French and Swiss national.
Adalio Sanchez - Member of the Supervisory Board
Mr Sanchez was elected as a member of the Supervisory Board on September 29, 2021, for a period of four years. It is proposed to the Annual General Meeting of May 12, 2025 to reappoint him for another four years.
Adalio Sanchez is an information technology industry veteran and a successful senior executive with a strong track record in transforming and growing complex global businesses. Mr. Sanchez was with IBM Corporation from 1982 to 2014 where he held various senior executive officer and global general management roles. Most recently, he led two IBM divisions with combined annual revenues exceeding six billion US dollars. Prior roles included Vice President of Corporate Strategy, and before that he ran IBM’s Microelectronics division, where he was responsible for semiconductor process technology development, device engineering, manufacturing, and IBM’s intellectual property portfolio.
After IBM, Mr. Sanchez was with Lenovo Group Limited, from 2014 to 2015, and served as Senior Vice President of the Lenovo’s Enterprise Systems Group with responsibility for the company’s server, storage, cloud, and datacenter technologies business.
Mr. Sanchez currently serves as a non-executive Board of Directors member of the Nasdaq-listed US-based companies: Avnet, Inc. a global semiconductor sales and distribution company; and ACI Worldwide, Inc. a global software company facilitating electronic real-time digital payments, where serves as Chair of the Board. Mr. Sanchez previously served on the Board of Directors of Snap One Holdings Corp. and Quantum
Corporation, also Nasdaq-listed US companies.
Mr. Sanchez has a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from the University of Miami, and an MBA from Florida International University. He was inducted to United States Academy of Engineering in 2023. He is a US national.