Annual Report 2014

Governance report
Our management
5.3
Our management
From left to right
André Hoste
Head of European Building Materials Division
In 1979, André joined Etex as an R&D
Engineer. After several Manager and
Director roles within our group, he became
Managing Director of Carrières du Hainaut
in 1995. In 1999, he returned to Eternit
Belgium. He became responsible for Etex’s
European Building Materials division in 2013.
Paul Van Oyen
CEO
Paul began his career at Etex as a
Laboratory and Project Manager at the
Redco R&D department. He subsequently
took on various Manager and Director roles
and became Director of our Fire Protection
& Insulation Division in 2011. Four years later,
in 2015, he took the helm of Etex as CEO.
Karel De Wilde
Company Secretary
Karel joined Etex as Company Secretary
and General Counsel in 2008. Prior to
that, he worked at the Corporate and M&A
department of law firm Allen & Overy in
London and Brussels and was Secretary
General to the ICT group Telindus.
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