Jo Cornu

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Jozef (Jo) Cornu (b. 1944) is a Belgian engineer businessman. He is at present CEO of Agfa-Gevaert.

1 Education
2 Career
3 Bibliography
4 Source

[edit] Education

Jo Cornu graduated as civil engineer in electrical engineering and mechanics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and he obtained a PhD in electronics at the Carlton University in Ottawa (Canada).

[edit] Career

He was CEO of Mietec in Oudenaarde from 1982 up to 1984 and afterwards General Manager of Bell Telephone until 1987. From 1988 up to 1995 he was a member of the Executive Board committee of Alcatel plc and from 1995 up to 1999 COO of Alcatel Telecom. Afterwards he became President of the Board of Directors of Alcatel.

Since 2005 Jo Cornu is President of ISTAG-group (Information Society Technologies Advisory Group) of the European Commission. In 2005, he was a member of the group which wrote the Aho report.