After more than 20 years in leadership roles at automotive and industrial businesses, Mr. Roney brings a broad range of business experience to Lumileds.

Prior to joining Lumileds, Matt served as the Chief Operating Officer at Stanley Infrastructure, a division of Stanley Black & Decker, following Stanley’s acquisition of Paladin Attachments where Matt was President and led the business through a substantial transformation to become the world’s leading independent manufacturer of attachments for off-highway equipment. Before joining Paladin, Matt was the Vice President and General Manager of the Global Steering business at TRW Automotive after progressive roles in product planning, business development, and general management. Prior to TRW, Matt began his career at Ford Motor Company as a manufacturing engineer in Powertrain Operations before moving to McKinsey & Company as a consultant and then to Siegel-Robert Automotive as Vice President of Sales, Marketing & Program Management. 

Matt has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, an MSE in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

With more than 30 years of business development, sales, marketing and general management experience in the semiconductor and LED lighting industries, Mr. Barlow brings a strong track record of leadership, market vision, business growth, customer and market development.

Prior to rejoining Lumileds, Mr. Barlow served as SVP of global sales and business development responsible for Cree’s lighting division products, channels, revenue and ecommerce business. His background includes various sales and sales management roles in HP’s semiconductor products group. He also served as the Chief Commercial Officer at Intematix Corporation, where he was responsible for the LED phosphor material and lighting component company’s commercial functions including global sales, marketing, application engineering, customer service, business development and distribution.  He first joined Lumileds in 2003, helping to build its LED automotive, camera flash, display and lighting businesses as head of sales and marketing.

Mr. Barlow holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University.

Mr. Pikaar started his career at Philips Lighting in The Netherlands before moving to Brazil to become Regional Manager Latin-America for lamp drivers. In 1999, he became part of the team that founded Lumileds as a joint venture between Hewlett Packard and Philips.  

Now, with more than 30-years of general management, business development, sales, and marketing experience in the LED and lighting industry, he is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the LED Solutions Business Unit. 

Prior to his current role, Mr. Pikaar was Head of Marketing for the LED Solutions Business Unit after joining RayVio, a startup company in UV-B/C LEDs. Through his extensive tenure at Philips Lighting and Lumileds, Mr. Pikaar has led international business organizations, strategic accounts and developed the specialty business in camera flash, display, and UV markets. Mr. Pikaar has enjoyed successful overseas assignments and is fluent in multiple languages.  

Mr. Pikaar holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tilburg Polytechnic in The Netherlands.

Mr. Teuwen brings extensive finance experience including planning and analysis, controlling, acquisitions, and investor relations to his role as Lumileds Chief Financial Officer. Since becoming an independent company, Mr. Teuwen has held various leadership positions in finance with increasing responsibility before becoming the CFO. In addition to leading the finance organization, Mr. Teuwen also oversees the company’s global IT operations.

Prior to his executive role at Lumileds, Mr. Teuwen spent 10 years at Philips where he held controller and FP&A positions with several business areas including R&D, consumer products, retail, and telecommunications.

Mr. Teuwen holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration as well as a master’s degree in Finance and Investments from Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

Oleg Shchekin is the Chief Technology Officer of Lumileds and is responsible for technology roadmap and incubating new technologies and product concepts that enable Lumileds to lead the industry. Oleg brings over 20 years of innovation, technical development and organizational leadership in semiconductors and LEDs to his role. Dr. Shchekin joined Lumileds in 2005 and has held a number of technical and leadership roles. He has guided LED product efficiency roadmaps, phosphor materials development, incubated and transferred new technologies and products to development, and established and developed a number of technical competencies in R&D. Dr. Shchekin’s previous professional experience includes epitaxial semiconductor crystal growth, semiconductor lasers, and flexible organic semiconductor integrated circuits. His work has been recognized by various awards as well as industry review journals.
 
Dr. Shchekin holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin.

Mr. Klein brings well-established experience in leading Culture, Performance, Leadership and Talent development initiatives to his role as Lumileds Chief HR Officer. Mr. Klein joined Lumileds 3 years ago as sr. Director Talent & Org Development, after which he was given global HR responsibility for our Automotive BU before becoming CHRO.

Prior to joining Lumileds, Mr. Klein served as Global Head for Leadership development, Executive recruitment, Talent & performance Management at NN Group. Before joining NN Group, Mr. Klein held various HR leadership and management positions at ING Group and American Express.

Mr. Klein holds a bachelor degree in International Management from the Amsterdam School of Business in the Netherlands as well as a degree in Business Administration (Diplom Betriebswirt)  from the University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund, Germany.

Dr. Haque is the SVP of Global Operations and is responsible for Operations, Supply-Chain Management, and Procurement for the company’s nine factories around the world. Dr. Haque started his career at Ford Motor Company and then moved to Philips Research in 2000. In 2002he transferred to Lumileds and over the past 19 years has held numerous leadership roles in R&D, Product Development, and Operations at Lumileds.

During his tenure at Lumileds, Dr. Haque has led all aspects of product and technology development and associated industrialization and transfer activities to mass production, manufacturing engineering & factory operations, and supplier & subcon development and management, including quality control. Dr. Haque has been instrumental in building very strong partnerships with leading customers and maintains an active customer facing role.

Dr. Haque holds a Ph.D. degree in Materials Engineering and Science and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia tech and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University.

Dr. Vaidyanathan is the SVP TD for Die, Packaging and Converter and has global responsibility for technology development in each of these functions. Prior to joining Lumileds, Dr. Vaidyanathan held leadership positions in Technology Development, Fabless Supplier Management and NPI Operations at companies including Intel, JDSU, and Xilinx. He joined Lumileds in 2015 to lead Device Technology Development and in 2019 added responsibility for Packaging TD. Dr. Vaidyanathan has over 30-years of experience in the Semiconductor, Photonics and LED industries.

Dr. Vaidyanathan holds MS and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Tulane University and a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Bombay University.

Mr. Yocum has served as a senior legal advisor for both publicly traded and private equity sponsored companies undertaking rapid growth initiatives and implementing transformational change.

Prior to joining Lumileds, Mr. Yocum was the Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for each of Vectra Co., a global technology-driven manufacturer serving the automotive, electronics, aerospace, defense, and medical industries. Prior to that, he held the same title at Taminco Corporation, a global publicly-traded specialty chemical company. He started his career with the law firm of Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York.

Mr. Yocum holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Villanova University School of Law and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Temple University.