Career
In 1987 he joined the Bekaert Group as Sales Manager Bekaert Hong Kong and in 1989 he was appointed as Strategic Project Manager and in 1991 Product Manager Fencing Products. He holds a degree in Applied Economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1983) and obtained an Master of Business Administration at the IMI in Geneva in 1987. With an estimated fortune of 761 million euro he is one of the wealthiest people in Belgium.
