Muriel Desaeger

Technical Head at Electronic Engineering Division

Brussels Metropolitan Area

About

Experienced General Manager and Technical Head with a demonstrated history of working in the automotive industry. Strong operations professional skilled in Continuous Improvement, Kaizen, Research and Development (R&D), Toyota Production System, and Automotive. Experienced in Life and Professional Coaching for the benefit of Companies and for people personal development

Experience

  • Toyota Motor Europe (22 yrs 6 mos)
    • Technical Head at Electronic Engineering Division
      Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

      Car industry is experienced an amazing transformation. Beside electrification, digitalisation is also embracing us. The future will be software defined vehicles where personalisation on driver and passenger will be key. This will also request the access to Real Time Data. In this new function, I shall bring my experience, knowhow and competencies to be active player of our transformation.

    • General Manager R&D Technology Strategy Planning & Incubation
      Jan 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 6 mos

      - Lead the development of New Technologies for Digitalisation & Decarbonisation (Including Big Data) - Secure the introduction of these new technologies for the benefit of Company Businesses

    • General Manager of Technology Trends Analysis
      Jan 2014 - Jan 2020 · 6 yrs 1 mo

      General Manager of Technology Trends Analysis at Toyota Motor Europe • Represent Toyota at the European Council for Automotive R&D (Coordination office) • Organise innovation through defining Megatrends and align some business operations towards them (fe Electromobility, Fuel cell, Connectivity, LTE communication) • Lead the Public Funded Projects activities of Toyota in order to strengthen our links with european based Universities and local suppliers • Manage the Future Mobility Committee on electromobility (EV, PHV) involving R&D, Sales & Marketing, Product Planning.