Appointments within Atos Worldline’s Management Committee

Mr Patrick Degryse joins Atos Worldline's Management Committee as Executive Vice President Human Resources. Mr Daniel Braeckman will from now on serve on the Management Committee of Atos Worldline Belgium as General Director Customer Services.

Patrick Degryse, directly answering to Didier Dhennin, Chief Executive Officer of Atos Worldline, previously had the post of general director for the Human Resources and Customer Services divisions of the Belgian subsidiary. From now on he is also responsible for drawing up and implementing the Human Resources strategy at group level. Besides this, he remains responsible for the Human Resources division of Atos Worldline Belgium.

After graduating in industrial and economic psychology at the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Patrick Degryse began his career at Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company, where he worked for six years. He then worked at Digital Equipment Corporation and Digital/Compaq, where he carried out a range of managerial functions, and sat on the Management Committee. In 1998 Patrick Degryse began at Banksys (Atos Worldline Belgium as from 1 June 2007) as general director for Human Resources, and as a member of the Management Committee.

Daniel Braeckman, previously head of the Customer Services Business Development department, will from now on report directly to Vincent Roland, Managing Director of Atos Worldline Belgium. He has the task of boosting the quality and effectiveness of Atos Worldline Belgium's customer service.

After graduating as an industrial engineer from the Polytechnic Faculty of the Free University of Brussels (ULB), Daniel Braeckman began his career at CRIF/WTCM, the collective research centre for the Belgian technological industry, where he worked for seven years. In 1996 he began at Banksys, where he has worked in a number of managerial positions.