About Me

"What you are is what you have done", said Buddha.

To give you a better insight in what you can expect from me as a person, I will give you some insight in my education and biography.

I was born in Wilrijk (BE) in 1968, as the eldest of 2.

At the age of 5, we moved to Italy for my father's job as general manager of the Italian branch of a Belgian company in the poultry industry. There I started school in Italian. I experienced personally how easy children learn foreign languages.

We moved quite a lot. By the age of 12, we lived in our 6th house and I went to my 5th school!

I learned to see change as an opportunity, not as a treath.

After graduation I joined the family business, that meanwhile my father had started in 1982. I made my debute in the Italian branch of the company, and a few years later I joined the head-office in Belgium. I traveled a lot at that time. The US, African countries as Mali, Ivory Coast and Guynea and some Middle-East regions like Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. This gave me the opportunity to experience business in various cultures and I got the opportunity to work with people from all social classes. In 2003, after two severe crises in the Belgian poultry industry, the dioxine crisis and bird flu, our family business unfortunately went broke. From here, I stepped into the world of automotive.

Here I had the opportunity to experience a new, complex business, full of KPI's, targets and standards. I experienced the business from a 360° angle, from sales to service and from dealer point of view to the constructor's point of view...

After 25 years of gathering this treasure of information, I decided to use this expertise to help your business!

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