Stephane is a qualified and practiced Civil Engineer (MSc.) having studied for a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. After completion of his Doctorate he then spent 24 years working for IBM in several roles in Marketing and Management. He has also been a visiting professor in ICT during 5 years at the Mons-Hainaut University and led the education centre of IBM of Belgium in La Hulpe during several yearsFor the last 4 years he held the position of Education & Training and Employment Advisor for Agoria, Belgium.During 6 years, as Valorization Manager with InduTec, he has responsibility for supporting the transfer of pre-prototype innovation developed by the Brussels Engineers Institutes into the industrial sector.Frequently requested as teacher in European University Colleges, he teaches CRM and SCM courses to students in engineering. He was also asked by the Flemish university colleges council (VLaamse HOgescholenRAad, VLHORA) and by the French-speaking Higher Education Quality Evaluation Agency (Agence pour l'Evaluation de la Qualité de l'Enseignement Supérieur, AEQES) as external auditor and accepted as an evaluator expert for the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).Between 2011 and 2014, he was also member of the Industrial Research Fund (IOF) of VUB