Visionaries in IT: Sophie Vanderbroek

Dr. Sophie Vandebroek is Xerox's Chief Technology Officer and the President of the Xerox Innovation Group. She was named to this position January 2006, and became a Corporate Vice President in February 2006.

Vandebroek is responsible for overseeing Xerox's worldwide research centers and for maximizing the company's returns on investment in research and technology.

Most recently, she was Chief Engineer of Xerox Corporation and Vice President of the Xerox Engineering Center.

Vandebroek is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers and served as an elected member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society Administrative Committee. She is also a Fulbright Fellow and a Fellow of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation. She holds 12 US patents.

Vandebroek was born in Leuven, Belgium. She earned a master's degree in electro-mechanical engineering from Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, and a Ph.D. in electrical-engineering from Cornell University.

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