Sophie Vandebroek

Dr. Sophie Vandebroek has been Xerox’s Chief Technology Officer and the President of the Xerox Innovation Group since January 2006. She is responsible for overseeing Xerox’s research centers in Europe, Asia, Canada and US as well as the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC Inc.).

Previously, Vandebroek was Chief Engineer of Xerox Corporation and Vice President of the Xerox Engineering Center. Prior to that, she served as Chief Technology Officer at Carrier Corp. From 1991 until 2000, she held a number of increasingly responsible roles at Xerox including technical advisor to Xerox's chief operating officer and Director of the Xerox Research Centre of Canada.

Vandebroek is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, a Fulbright Fellow and a Fellow of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation. She holds 12 US patents.

Vandebroek has received awards from Xerox, IBM, HP, Monsanto, the Belgium National Science Foundation, Semiconductor Research Corporation, IEEE, and Cornell University. She served as a judge for MIT’s Technology Review Young Innovators awards, the Wall Street Journal Innovation awards and the FIRST Lego and Robotics competition regional awards.

Vandebroek is a member of the Board of Directors of Analogic Corporation, Nypro Corporation and a member of Cummins Science & Technology Council. She is a trustee of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and serves on Cornell University Engineering School advisory board.

Vandebroek was born in Leuven, Belgium where she earned a master's degree in electro-mechanical engineering from Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Vandebroek lives in Lincoln, MA with her husband and their six teenage children.