Paul van Ijsselstein

•Presidente da ICRIT/ CEO of STRATAGEM Group B.V., President of ICRIT and Founder and co-owner of LR Systems B.V. 
 
Until 1 May 2017 Paul van IJsselstein was CEO of LR Systems BV, a start-up company that he founded in September 2014, with responsibility for the development, production, support, marketing and sales of Large Robot systems, such as the Laser Coating removal Robot (LCR), a fast and sustainable state-ofthe-art solution for stripping paint and coatings from aircraft and helicopters. After 1 May 2017 Paul continues to stay involved in the company as co-owner and senior advisor. 
 
Paul has more than 30 years’ experience in the aerospace sector and has provided industrial leadership to many small- and medium size businesses. He is specialized in using an ‘out of the box’ approach to achieve unique ‘best of industry’ solutions for a global market. As CEO of the STRATAGEM Group Paul develops new ‘product-market combinations’ for the maintenance industry through market and product research and innovation. One of his recent appointments is President of ICRIT (Integrated Composite Repair, Inspection & Training), a consortium of SME’s that was established in 2015 for the development of new structural repair, NDT inspection and learning processes for the aircraft maintenance industry.  
 
Paul is leading the STRATAGEM Group since 2005. Before that he was vice president international business development for Boeing in Europe. In this responsibility, Paul coordinated the Group’s business development activities in Europe in the field of Army-, Navy- and Air force Programs, Satellite Systems, Homeland Security, Intelligence Systems, NASA Systems and Aerospace Support. From July 1999 until February 2002 Paul was posted in Canberra, Australia, as Corporate Regional Director of Thales Nederland. Until February 1999 he was senior vice-president & deputy CEO of Fokker Space BV in the Netherlands and President of Fokker Space Inc., Alexandria, VA. He joined the Fokker Company in January 1986, where he started as manager military programs, responsible for the marketing, sales and contracts group. He was nominated vice-president Defense Affairs at Fokker Aircraft USA Inc. in Alexandria VA in 1988. Before joining Fokker, Mr. van IJsselstein was policy director at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, with responsibility for offset policy (naval programs), Defense technology development and Defense industrial base issues. 
 
He is a Member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has an Associate Fellowship of the Royal Institute of Navigation and was included into 2012-2013 edition of the Who’s Who registry of executives as Professional of the Year. Paul served 20 years in the Royal Netherlands Navy.  During the last 4 years of his Navy career he was assigned to the British Ministry of Defense, based in Portland, Dorset.