Background
Pierre De Muelenaere was born in Brussels.
Pierre De Muelenaere was born in Brussels.
Pierre De Muelenaere was born in Brussels. He received a civil engineering Degree in Electronics from the Université Catholique de Louvain in 1981 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Applied science in 1987, from the same university.
Pierre De Muelenaere has been leading I.R.I.S. through all its development steps and is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the company. In 2008, the company, which has become a world-wide leader in the field of Intelligent Document Capture and Document Management had a staff of more than 500 people, with a revenue of more than €100 million. Pierre De Muelenaere original background is Integrated circuit design.
A prototype of a complete Optical Character Recognition system was also built in the University labs, based on a new generation of custom Image Processing ICs.
With the support of the Belgian holding Ackermans & van Haaren, and together with a fellow Doctor of Philosophy student Jean-Didier Legat, Pierre founded I.R.I.S. (Image Recognition Integrated Systems) in April 1987, to bring this invention to the market, develop and market Optical character recognition (Optical Character Recognition) and Intelligent Document Recognition (IDR) products. I.R.I.S. has now more than 500 people, with offices in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, United States of America and Hong-Kong.
In 2008, the revenue was over €100millions. Over the years, De Muelenaere has been a main contributor to the R&Doctorate vision of I.R.I.S. and has contributed to the development of many new I.R.I.S. technologies and products and to a number of patents filed by the company.
He also accumulated a solid international experience establishing strategic agreements with international partners in the United States of America, Europe and Asia (such as Himachal Pradesh, Canon, Kodak, Adobe, Fujitsu, Siemens, ) contributing to the development of I.R.I.S. in the United States of America and Asia.
He is currently, President and Chief Executive Officer of I.R.I.S. Group, and a member of the board of several companies, including: Bachelor of Science in Business, Belgacom, Pairi Daiza.