Primary Job Title CEO Primary Organization 
CSR
Gender Male
Mr Joep van Beurden was appointed Chief Executive Officer on 1 November 2007. Prior to joining CSR, Mr van Beurden was Chief Executive of NexWave Inc., a provider of embedded software solutions for the consumer electronics market based in France.
Before joining NexWave, Mr van Beurden held senior positions at Canesta Inc., a fabless
semiconductor company in San Jose, California, and Philips Components also in San Jose. Prior to that, Mr van Beurden had worked for five years for management and strategy consultants McKinsey & Company in Amsterdam. Mr van Beurden has also worked as a crude oil trader for Royal Dutch Shell in Rotterdam and lectured in Physics and Electronics at the University of Zambia.
In January 2009, Mr van Beurden was appointed a director of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), a not-for-profit organisation supporting collaboration, supply chain integration and innovation in the global semiconductor industry. In December 2009, the GSA appointed Mr van Beurden as a vice chairman.
Mr van Beurden holds a Masters degree in Applied Physics from Twente University of Technology in Enschede, The Netherlands.
