BDVA Board of Directors Updates
On 9 Dec. 2025, BDVA held elections for its Board of Directors during the 34th General Assembly. Members were called to elect 23 directors, who were appointed for the upcoming 2-year term, joining 2 directors who are continuing their term.
On 9 December 2025, BDVA held elections for the Board of Directors in the context of its 34th General Assembly. As part of the meeting, members were called to elect 23 directors, who were appointed for the upcoming 2-year term, joining 2 directors who are continuing their term after completing their first year in position.
Congratulations to the appointed Directors
- Freek Bomhof – TNO, Netherlands
- Edward Curry – Insight Centre, Ireland
- Davide Dalle Carbonare – Engineering, Italy
- Valerio Frascolla – Intel, Germany
- Stefan Gessler – NEC Laboratories, Germany
- Jozef Geurts – Inria, France
- Thomas Hahn – Siemens, Germany
- Michalis Kefalogiannis – Cosmote Telecom – OTE Group, Greece
- Laure Le Bars – SAP Technology & Innovation, France
- Till Lech – SINTEF, Norway
- Jeanette Nilsson – RISE, Sweden
- Shane Ó Seasnáin – VITO, Belgium
- Aljosa Pasic – Bull, Spain
- Fernando Perales de Mingo – JOT Internet Media España SL, Spain
- Antonis Ramfos – Athens Technology Centre, Greece
- Daniel Saez Domingo – ITI, Spain
- Joaquín Salvachúa Rodríguez – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Robert Seidl – Nokia, Germany
- Rob Smeets – Philips, Netherlands
- Richard Stevens – IDC, Italy
- Tuomo Tuikka – VTT, Finland
- Stefan Van Baelen – imec, Belgium
- Andrejs Vasiljevs – Tilde, Latvia
Together with Dolores Ordóñez – AnySolution, Spain and Fabrice Tocco – Dawex, France the BDVA BoD counts as per today with 25 members (10 Large Entreprises, 5 SMEs and 10 members representing Research and Academia)
Members were also called to appoint a President and Vice-presidents, renewing the 2-year mandate for Thomas Hahn (Siemens) as President, for Laure Le Bars (SAP) as Vice-President for industry and for Edward Curry (Insight) as Vice-President for research.
BDVA would like to thank all candidates for these elections!
BDVA would also like to express its gratitude to all the members of the Board who have served over the last few years and will not be continuing: Juan Bernabé-Moreno (IBM), Maria Pérez (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid) and Dominique Grelet (Eviden). We want to thank them for their contributions and dedication.