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Under De Hauwer, the Strategic Market Development team is responsible for monitoring and assessing important market developments, as well as identifying, evaluating, recommending and implementing potential investment and acquisition opportunities for SES.
Since 2003, De Hauwer and his team have played a crucial role in a number of major transactions for SES, including the New Skies acquisition in 2005, and the €1.2 billion redemption transaction with GE, from whom SES acquired AMERICOM in 2001. Most recently, De Hauwer’s team played a leading role in the evaluation and negotiations that led to SES’ decision to make a large investment in O3b Networks, in November 2009.
From 1998 to 2003, De Hauwer was a consultant at Arthur Andersen, specialising in the European telecommunications and media industries. De Hauwer holds a Ph.D. in Engineering.
