Speakers

Wim Geens is leading the lithium and manganese sourcing activities for Umicore’s Battery Materials division since 2022.  Wim joined Umicore in 2003 where he started his career in the business unit Electro-Optic Materials, covering a wide variety of roles managing R&D, operations and commercial teams.  During his time at EOM he spent 4 years in the USA to start up a new production line for germanium substrates.  Wim was also member of the EOM management team from 2016 until 2020.  Prior to his current role he worked as Senior Innovation Director in Umicore’s corporate New Business Incubation team, developing strategies for Electronics materials and applications.  Wim has a Master’s degree in Physics and completed a PhD at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center IMEC in Leuven.