Founder in 2013 of Actility Benelux NV (now Thingpark BNL) and Managing Director, as a JV with Actility SA, which has become world leader for LPWA (LoRaWan) - Internet of Things (IoT) networks. Actility energy was also active as an aggregator of flexibility for Elia to support the electric grid stability and to manage the influence of renewable energy (now part of a large multinational known as Flexcity).I started my career in 1975 in the energy sector (oil and gas industry) for US manufacturing companies (Dresser, Solar Turbines) with extensive travelling in Europe,USA and Middle East with sales to engineering companies such as Lumus, Fluor, Bechtel.From 1980 till 1984 active as CEO for a belgian elevator company, now part of Schindler.From 1984 till now active in telecom and ICT industry. First for GTE-ATEA, which became part of Siemens. Founding CEO of ATT/Unisource Belux (later KPN Belux ) in 1991. KPN Belgium became the biggest competitor of Belgacom for the fixed network, with total revenues of more then 100 m€ in data , IP and voice services with 400 persons employed in year 2000. KPN sold this company to Scarlet, now part of Proximus (Belgacom).As part of Agoria, first Chairman of Platform of Telecom Operators and Service Providers in 1997 to establish the framework for the liberalisation of the telecom market in Belgium in discussion with regulatory authority BIPT.Telecom advisor for Minister of Telecommunications in Belgium in 2000.Several positions as interim manager in ICT sector: Broadnet, Iparix, Sylis, Switchlink, Tele2 Versatel, Comverse,