Digital For Youth is a non-profit organisation with strives for the digital inclusion of underprivileged children in Belgium. We do so by providing refurbished laptops and digital education to youth organisations (via the King Beaudoin Foundation) and schools. To achieve this, we partner with companies and institutions who are willing to donate used laptops and IT-assets to Digital For Youth in the framework of their CSR-objectives.

Xenit Solutions is specialized in Enterprise Content Management for companies which need to quickly retrieve and/or archive large amounts of data in a secure manner, either on-premise or in the cloud.

Teaching the course "International Business" to Bachelor students

Astadia Inc. (USA) - the mainframe-to-cloud migration expert - has recently acquired Anubex N.V. (Belgium) with a goal to unleash the combination of the sales power and partner network of Astadia with the automated migration and testing tools and migration factory of Anubex.

FT Group offers total solutions for internal transport systems (conveyors, Automated Guided Vehicles, Autonomous Mobile Robots), automation processes and maintenance services to customers active in food & beverage, pharmaceuticals, fast moving consumer goods and/or e-commerce/distribution/logistics. To deliver quality, we work closely with a strong network of partners and integrators.

Anubex is an international leader in automated legacy system migration, modernization and testing.Founded in 1988, Anubex has a strong reputation for technical leadership via its migration factory which successfully delivered some 100 migrations to Fortune 500 companies in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Having joined as Board member, Finance Director and co-owner via a Management Buy-In, we have created a new business plan and organization oriented towards international growth via partners with focus on the sale of software products. In 2016, I became non-executive director.

Flanders Investment and Trade (FIT) facilitates investment projects in Flanders and renders support to export-driven companies. As the UK is the 4th export market for Flemish businesses, we provide tailor-made advice to proactively prepare businesses and trade associations for brexit. As the corona pandemic affected our export-driven companies, we quickly delivered virtual solutions in order to ensure that B2B matchmaking and (virtual and hybrid) trade fairs and trade missions could continue to take place without interruption.

Citribel is a quality producer of citric acid, citrates and co-products.Having brought new momentum into this 100-years old company in terms of leadership, investment and innovation as CEO, my focus as Director has shifted externally towards: o Extending EU anti-dumping measures.o Representing Citribel at chemistry and food associations such as CEFIC, FEVIA, Flanders’ Food and VoKa.o Developing open innovation partnerships in order to build a stronger future on 3 pillars, i.e. citric acid, citrates/derivatives and high-value co-products.

During its troubled history since 1919, Citrique Belge has suffered losses which led to restructurings, under-investment and a lack of innovation since 2002. Appointed by new shareholders (Riflebird Capital) as CEO to build a stronger and broader future, a new management team set up a business plan focused on production and sales growth, development of new co-products, smart investments, training & development and enhanced safety, reliability & sustainability.

I was invited to join the Board of Directors of Lettergen (now Connective), an ICT company which developed and marketed its e-signature and document generation suite to the financial industry.

Enfinity is an international player in renewable energy - with focus on solar energy - which develops, builds and operates power plants in America, Europa and Asia-Pacific.My role was to set up a global organization across 3 regions (Europe, Asia and North America) and 20 subsidiaries in order to capture the rapid market growth - supported by feed-in-tariffs - which turned solar energy parks - next to B2B sales to large roof-owners - into a financial product for long-term investors.

BNP Paribas Fortis is the leading bank in Belgium.As General Manager Commercial Banking Belgium, my role was to spark 210 account managers and 240 support staff with a goal to boost cross-selling & customer service towards 36.500 mid-sized enterprises and bring specialist advice in leasing, factoring, cash management, trade finance and corporate finance.