HRD Antwerp appoints Emile Schoeters as new Senior Manager of HRD Diamond Lab

HRD Antwerp NV, which provides grading, gemmological, educational, technological and research services to the international diamond and jewellery industries, has named Emile Schoeters as the new Senior Manager of the HRD Diamond Lab. He replaces Anita Dillen, who left the organisation at the end of 2007.

Mr. Schoeters joins HRD Antwerp from Agfa-Gevaert, where he served as a key manager. He holds both a doctorate in nuclear physics and an MBA, and comes with extensive experience as a team leader in an international science-based business environment.

In his new role Mr. Schoeters will be responsible for the daily management of the HRD Diamond Lab, and for the formulation of the laboratory’s business strategy. Among the challenges that he will face right at the outset is expanding and optimising the lab’s grading capacity. This is necessary to meet the growing demand for HRD Antwerp diamond certificates, which reached unprecedented levels in 2006 and 2007.

With his excellent managerial skills and experience, and his strong scientific background, we are confident that Emile is ideally suited to head the HRD Diamond Lab, said Georges Brys, general manager of HRD Antwerp.

The almost exponential rise in demand for our grading reports has provided us with a tremendous opportunity for growth. Emile, who is intimately familiar with the demands of a science-based enterprise in a market environment, is the right person to take the HRD Diamond Lab further into the future.

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