Team

During his more than ten years in the Venture Capital team Bart Diels (1969) has built a successful & broad full cycle track record, both in early & late stage investments, business building and exit (IPO & trade sale) and this in different Venture Capital areas. Bart guided early stage companies such as BAI, eXimius, Filepool and Metris from a smart idea towards a rewarding exit. Also later stage deals such as FICS, Clear2Pay and LMS were successfully sold.

Today Bart is a board member of  GreenWatt, OTN Systems,  NovoPolymers, McPhy and Punch Powertrain and an observer at XDC. Since 2009 he is responsible within the Venture Capital team for Cleantech investments and he also coordinates this activity between the different business units of Gimv. Bart is a member of Gimv's Partner Council.

Before joining Gimv in 1995, Bart worked for Delta Lloyd Bank and as a PhD student at the University of Antwerp (Belgium)

He holds a Master in Financial & Quantitative Economics and an MBA, both from the University of Antwerp (Belgium).

Before joining Gimv in 2008, Hansjörg Sage (1969) was a Director in 3i’s global Venture Capital team, where he focused on hardware-related early- and late-stage investments in European technology start-ups, mainly in the electronics, semiconductor and cleantech sectors. He managed investments in u-blox, h t e and Dialog Imaging Systems. Before, Hansjörg Sage worked on technology investments in Europe and Israel at Lehman Brothers. He started his career as a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in 1997. 

Hansjörg Sage holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and a PhD from the University of Strasbourg in control theory and robotics. He also obtained an MBA from Insead.
 

Before joining Gimv in 2010, Pierre Egot (1983) worked as an associate with BayTech Venture Capital in Munich. He covered the domains of technology and cleantech. He played an active role in many investments and reinvestments in Europe and Israel and was also deeply involved in the portfolio management of eight BayTech participations, amongst which both early-stage and late stage companies. Prior to this, Pierre was a consultant for Estin & Co. in Paris and for a start-up specialised in smart-metering and in Cambridge.

Pierre acts as a board observer for Mentum, Ubidyne and Private Outlet. He is/was also actively involved in the portfolio management of Movea and TinubuSquare (sold to FSI).

Pierre obtained his Msc in Engineering from the Paris École Politechnique. In addition to this, he obtained his MPhil in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge (Judge Business School), specialising in innovation theories and energy issues.

Robert Gallenberger (1977) started his career at BMW in Munich. He coordinated the production ramp-up for major updates of the 3 Series with new engines including the “efficient dynamics” co2 reduction technologies and represented the production side in the product management organization. After his MBA studies he worked for the Boston Consulting Group in London on projects in the energy sector and industrial co2 emission reduction. Before joining Gimv he had already gathered Private Equity and Venture Capital experience at 3i, DFJ Esprit and BCG.
 

Robert is a board observer at Oree, Novopolymers, Openbravo and actively involved in the portfolio management of McPhy and PE International.

He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University Munich, a Master of Science from Ecole Centrale Paris and an MBA from London Business School.
 

Matthias Vandepitte (1980) joined Gimv in 2011. Previously he worked for ExxonMobil’s petroleum refining business in Belgium and in Italy, where he held several technical and managerial positions in the fields of process optimization, planning, maintenance, energy efficiency and CO2 management.

During his MBA studies he interned at Bain & Company in Brussels, and he gained private equity and venture capital experience at Climate Change Capital Private Equity in London.

Matthias is a board observer at GreenPeak and GreenWatt. He is actively involved in the portfolio management of OTN Systems.

Matthias holds a MSc in Electrotechnical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and Ensimag (France), and an MBA from London Business School.
 

Eline Talboom (1968) joined Gimv in 2000. Before, she worked with Sydes, a subsidiary of the VUM Group, the leading Belgian newspaper publisher. Prior to that, she worked with Bank Brussels Lambert (currently ING) for eight years, as Product Manager International Payment Products and as Segment Manager for retail clients.

Eline Talboom holds a Master in Applied Economics from the University of Antwerp (RUCA), Belgium.