Partner at VIVES Partners · Joined 2008
View Live Interactive Profile →André Vandemeulebroecke is a Partner at VIVES Partners and a member of its investment committee, focusing on technology and engineering companies. He graduated as an electrical engineer from the École Polytechnique de Louvain in 1983 and began as a microelectronics researcher at UCLouvain working on cryptography, producing fifteen scientific publications and two patents. He joined Alcatel Microelectronics in 1989 and held R&D, marketing, sales and business development roles; after STMicroelectronics acquired the business in 2002 he was Worldwide Account Director, growing sales from around EUR 100M to EUR 300M over four years and taking part in M&A work. He joined Sopartec and the VIVES funds in 2008 and has since handled due diligence, shareholder agreements, capital rounds and exits, as well as technology commercialisation and spin-off creation. He is a director of the management company VIVES Partners SRL. His name is written with the accented 'e' exactly as the firm writes it.