Image sensor developer Caeleste has appointed Geert De Peuter as its new CEO. De Peuter is a microelectronics engineer who has spent much of his career at Alcatel, now Nokia. He obtained his master’s degree in electronic engineering from KU Leuven in 1997. De Peuter nurtured the startup and fortification of the Alcatel-Lucent DSL Physical Layer team, which evolved into the company and industry reference for broadband access product evolutions. As R&D director of a Bell Laboratories venture focused on real-time virtualized and hardware accelerated video processing, he explored his entrepreneurial nature. During the last five years, De Peuter managed the ASIC/hardware research team at Nokia Bell Labs, where he focused on groundbreaking, industry-relevant research for fixed and converged broadband innovations. Caeleste develops turnkey, high-end CMOS image sensors.