Philip Vanhoutte, CEO Plantronics Ltd

Philip Vanhoutte joined Plantronics in September 2003 and is responsible for managing Plantronics business throughout EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa)

From October 2001 until September 2003 Philip served as Corporate Vice President of Marketing at Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications where he was instrumental in launching the new brand of camera/smartphones and Bluetooth headsets. From October 2000 to October 2001 Mr. Vanhoutte served as Vice president, strategic market development at Ericsson’s personal communication division and prepared the merger with Sony’s mobile phone business.

From December 1998 until September 2000, Philip served as Senior Vice President, Products, Marketing and Sales at MCI WorldCom’s International Division in London.

From November 1994 to 1998 Mr. Vanhoutte held various marketing and general management positions at Dell Computer Corporation including the role of General Manager for the Business Systems Division in the United States. He also held the position of Managing Director for Dell Direct in the United Kingdom and Ireland and as Vice President Products, Marketing & Services EMEA.

Beginning in June, 1991 he worked for Nokia Data as Vice President Marketing which was merged into Fujitsu-ICL’s Personal Systems and Client-Server Division where he continued as Vice President of Marketing until November 1994. From 1985 until May 1991 Mr. Vanhoutte worked in various European marketing and division manager roles with Wang Laboratories.

Mr. Vanhoutte started his career at Arthur Andersen’s Benelux Information Consulting division in 1977 where he specialised in structured programming and office automation. Mr. Vanhoutte studied Applied Economics and Engineering at the University of Leuven, Belgium and now lives in Belgium with his wife.