Leuven, Belgium – LMS International, the engineering innovation company, announced the appointment of Eddy Vandersmissen to the position of Vice President Marketing and Customer Services. Eddy Vandersmissen joins LMS from Fujitsu Siemens where he held the position of Marketing Director for the Benelux region.
Eddy Vandersmissen holds more than 25 years of experience in sales, marketing and professional services management at several international ICT companies. Before joining Fujitsu Siemens, Mr. Vandersmissen was Senior Director EMEA Marketing at Autodesk. Prior to that, he held sales and marketing director positions at BULL and SGI and built up an extensive career in sales, marketing and professional services at HP.
“We are delighted to welcome an experienced manager like Eddy to LMS,” commented Rudi Weekers, President and Chief Operating Officer of LMS. “With his broad background in sales, marketing and services, Eddy provides a strong strategic and practical process experience that will further strengthen our ability to deliver engineering solutions to the needs of our customers. Eddy Vandersmissen will play an essential role in building and maintaining long-term relationships with our customers, and will therefore also be responsible for the LMS customer services group.”
“I am delighted to join one of the most successful companies in the engineering software industry and I look forward to support LMS in continuing its growth track record in the coming years,” said Eddy Vandersmissen. “My mission will be focused on further professionalizing the marketing organization at LMS with the aim to further increase the LMS market share in a wide variety of manufacturing industries. The international marketing and customer services group that I will be heading at LMS will continue to concentrate on building strong customer relationships and delivering product and services with a clear response to customer needs.”
LMS is an engineering innovation partner for companies in the automotive, aerospace and other advanced manufacturing industries. LMS enables its customers to get better products faster to market, and to turn superior process efficiency to their strategic competitive advantage. LMS delivers a unique combination of virtual simulation software, testing systems, and engineering services. We are focused on the mission critical performance attributes in key manufacturing industries, including structural integrity, handling, safety, reliability, comfort and sound quality. Through our technology, people and over 25 years of experience, LMS has become the partner of choice for most of the leading discrete manufacturing companies worldwide. LMS, a Dassault Systèmes Gold Partner and SIMULIA Partner, is certified to ISO9001:2000 quality standards and operates through a network of subsidiaries and representatives in key locations around the world. Visit www.lmsintl.com for more information on LMS.
LMS Press Contacts:
Corporate:
Bruno Massa
Tel +32 16 384 200
bruno.massa@lms.be
Germany:
Kerstin Schwenk
Tel +49 7152 97 97 90
kerstin.schwenk@lms-gmbh.de
France:
Myriam Degroux
Tel + 33 1 69 35 19 20
myriam.degroux@lmsfrance.fr
Italy:
Alessandra Fabiani
Tel +39 0321 44 50 11
alessandra.fabiani@lms.it
United States:
Kimberly Winkler
Tel +1 248 952 5664
kimberly.winkler@lmsna.com
Japan:
Maki Hisano
Tel +81 45 478 4800
maki.hisano@lms-ja.co.jp
China:
Susan Wu
Tel +86 10 8497 6463
susan.wu@lmschina.com
Korea:
Suk Hee Jeon
Tel +82 2 571 7246
sukhee.jeon@lmsko.co.kr
