Our Advisory Board

Daniel Gauthier

Daniel Gauthier joined CBR in 1982. After taking on various positions in several cement plants, in 1988 he took on responsibility for white-cement activities. From 1990 to 1994, he served as Technical Director of the cement business line in Belgium. He managed the Strategy & Development Department of the CBR Group from 1994 until 1998, when he was appointed Senior General Manager at HeidelbergCement with operating responsibility for the Central Europe East region. In July 2000, he was appointed to the Managing Board with regional responsibility for Central Europe East. Today, Daniel Gauthier is in charge of Northern and Western Europe, Mediterranean, Africa, Group Services, and Environmental Sustainability.

Alain Goudsmet

After 20 years of experience as a sports coach at the tennis and the hockey federation, Alain Goudsmet created the mentally Fit Institute at the attention of those he named “Corporate Athletes”.

As an executive coach, Alain guides numbers of leaders and their teams. He gives lectures in different Universities and High School in Belgium and France, and has published many researches on human performance.

As a high level speaker, he leads a large range of conferences on human potential.

Olivier Witmeur

Olivier Witmeur holds the Bernheim Chair of Entrepreneurhip and manages the Executive Education team at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (ULB, Belgium). He is also an advisor for multiple growth oriented entrepreneurs and organizations. Olivier has been part of the entrepreneurial team of OpenHR (2000-2006), a successful Belgian IT venture company specialized in HR management software, where he was mainly responsible for financial affairs. The company was created in 1997 and quickly became international with operations in France, Spain, U.K. and U.S. By 2005, OpenHR had 6M€ in revenues and a 70 people staff. It was sold to Arinso International in 2006.

Joseph De Gheldere

Joseph De Gheldere is currently the managing director of BeAngels, the belgian network of Business Angels. He brings a large experience into new venture financing. Previously he was a Partner at IBM, PWC consulting and KPMG. He holds an MBA from the University of Dallas.

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Bruno Colard,

Sales Manager at Siemens, Co-founder of KyoKa, Co-founder at Leadership Yourself

My career path is mainly focused on industrial projects, ranging from Project Management (PM) with Altran Europe to Sales Manager for Siemens. At Siemens, I was in charge of water infrastructure equipment in the export department. My responsibilities included: sales and project follow-up with PM teams. I also gained technical experience in power sub-stations, as well as electrical and hydro-mechanical equipment. My expertise includes: market strategy, turnkey contracts, and negotiations with multi-national and multi-cultural environments, e.g., Chinese, Canadian and Algerian. I decided to place my career with Siemens on hold for 2 years, with the possibility of returning in the future. In the meantime, I am continuing to develop my entrepreneurship skills by managing KyoKa, my jewelry and fashion accessories business that I started in 2006, and launching a Leadership Yourself. I graduated from Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, where I received a Master of Science in Civil Engineering (mechanical orientation) magna cum laude. During my leisure time, I enjoy sports, meeting friends to share life experiences, business opportunities and good moments. I also focus on soft skills development, a key to success!

Gaetan Raevens

Managing Director at Consulting Gate, Co-founder at Leadership Yourself

For the past two years I have worked as the principal consultant for my own company, Consulting Gate. Two of the major companies I have worked with are ING and GDF Suez. Some of my major projects are in the Financial, Energy, and IT industries. For those particular projects I used a mix of soft skills and hard skills to implement a management strategy with concrete actions. I gained experience as a Line Manager for DuPont and worked as a Sales & Marketing Line manager in the Chemical/ Printing industry. I also gained consulting skills at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where I worked on global process best practices and project software implementation for customers like Nestle and ExxonMobil. Those projects have also reinforced my cultural knowledge as a result of traveling and residing in different countries such as Japan, Switzerland, and Germany. I hold two major degrees: a Master in Science from Faculte Polytechnique de Mons and a post-graduate degree in Integrated Enterprise Management. During my free time, I participate in a variety of sports and enjoy traveling and meet passionate people. I also have a strong interest in personal development.

Olivier Delangre

Co-founder and CMO at EmendoPro, Co-founder and CEO at Amoobi

I am simultaneously running two startup projects. I have been leading Amoobi, a research project at the University of Brussels, since October 2008. Amoobi is aimed at creating a new platform to localize and communicate with mobile phones inside buildings spin-off. The compa,y was officially created in 2011 and raised money from Business Angels. In 2009, I co-created EmendoPro, a web-based company providing editing services for non-native English writers. I have also worked as a Teaching Assistant and Researcher for the Polytechnic School at the University of Brussels. I earned a master degree in Electrical Engineering and majored in Electronics. In addition, I hold a Masters degree in Management and a PhD in Applied Sciences. I enjoy learning new things and meeting new people. I have attended several training classes on various topics, ranging from languages to entrepreneurship. Some of these training classes were held in Belgium and some abroad, such as RealAcad in Stanford (2008). During my leisure time, I enjoy traveling and have traveled to: New-Zealand, Canada, USA, Iceland, Western Europe, and more. I also enjoy spending quality time with my two daughters.

Thierry Soubestre

COO at Deployments Factory, Founder and past-manager of Pixelixir

For the last 10 years I've been active as an entrepreneur in the IT Business as the founder and Managing Partner of PIXELIXIR. PIXELIXIR was one the largest IBM BELUX Business Partner in the collaboration area managing mainly medium and large customers. My role inside the company has evolved from a very technical and consulting one at the beginning, to a more managerial one as the company was growing. Curious by nature, I've always loved putting my nose in a lot of different topics and the least I can say is that being an entrepreneur fulfilled all of my expectations.

Nevertheless after 10 years working for PIXELIXIR, I decided it was time moving to new challenges and helping your entrepreneurs to initiate their project represents a very motivating one.

I graduated in Physics from the University Paris VII, followed by an MBA at the University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne.

During my free time, I enjoy playing sports as much as I can and following my departure of PIXELIXIR, I had the opportunity to visit Australia and Indonesia on a bicycle, an unforgettable experience which combines travelling, sport and facing new situations every day.

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