The General Assembly of the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA), which took place on June 13th in Gdansk/Poland prior to the annual EMVA Business Conference, has elected the new EMVA Board of Directors consisting of nine members. For the upcoming three-year term the following Board members were re-elected:

• Arndt Bake, Basler


• Dirk Berndt, Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF


• Marco Diani, iMAGE S


• Kai-Udo Modrich, ZEISS Inline Inspection & Metrology


• Ronald Mueller, Vision Markets


• Chris Yates, Vision Ventures

In addition, the EMVA welcomes three newly elected members in its Board of Directors, namely:

• Petra Thanner, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)


• Benjamin Cocquelin, TIAMA Group


• Maurice van der Aa, Advantech Europe B.V.

Caption: The new EMVA Board of Directors elected on June 13th. From left to right Dr. Ronald Mueller; EMVA Treasurer Arndt Bake; Dr. Marco Diani; EMVA President Dr. Chris Yates; Maurice van der Aa; Benjamin Cocquelin; Petra Thanner; Dr. Dirk Berndt; EMVA Vic President Dr. Kai-Udo Modrich.