Board of directors

Dr. Urbain Vandeurzen is Chairman of the Board of Directors of LMS International, where he also holds the position of CEO since 1980.

He also is Honorary Chairman of VOKA-Vlaams Economisch Verbond. Before he was Vice-Chairman of the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium, Vice-Chairman of Agoria Flanders and Vice-Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce in Leuven. Previously he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Scia, Flander’s Drive and, until recently, Director of Barco. He is also involved in the educational reform and the innovation policy in Flanders, more specifically as Chairman of the Commission “Accent op Talent” of the King Baudouin Foundation and as Director of the Prince Albert Fund, Flanders Technology International (FTI) and former Chairman of the FWO. At the Catholic University of Leuven, he is a member of the Senate and Chairman of the Fundraising “Campaign Board”. In his position as Chairman of VOKA-VEV, he also was strongly involved in defining the transformation program “Vlaanderen in Actie”.

During his flourishing career, he received various awards such as the four nominations for “Trends Entrepreneur of the Year” and with his company he was laureate of the award “Most Innovative Company” and “Company of the year”, presented by the Flemish Government.

Dr. Urbain Vandeurzen has previously been on the Board of Directors of Gimv from 1996 until 2003.
 

Koen Dejonckheere was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Gimv in 2008. Before, he was Managing Director and head of Corporate Finance at KBC Securities, where he made major contributions to the European expansion of the corporate finance activities.

Previously, Koen Dejonckheere worked for Nesbic, Halder, Price Waterhouse Corporate Finance Europe and the Bank Brussel Lambert.. Koen Dejonckheere has extensive experience as a dealmaker in investment banking and private equity in Belgium and abroad.

He is Chairman of the Belgian Venturing & Private Equity Association, member of the Board of Directors of CapMan Plc. (Finland), Hospital Group HHRM vzw and Home Invest Sicafi. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium (FEB).

Koen Dejonckheere holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Ghent and an MBA from IEFSI in Lille (France).
 

Dirk Boogmans has been a director and advisor of companies since 2008. Previously he was CEO at Gimv and construction group CFE.

He is chairman of the board of directors at Caesar Real Estate Fund and Global Lifting Partners (part of the Arcomet Groep). Furthermore, he chairs the QAT Fondsen advisory committees, the Hercules Invest commission, the VUB and UZ Brussels audit committees and the Flemish Council for Science and Innovation (Vlaamse Raad voor Wetenschap en Innovatie, VRWI). He is a member of the Boards of Directors of P&V, Vivium, BNP Paribas Fortis Bank, Vinçotte Groep, Ethias Finance, Collibra n.v. en ASAP HR Groep n.v.

He has been a director in the Gimv board of directors since June 2010.
 

Christ’l Joris is chairwoman of the board of directors of ETAP and the Parfibel board of commissioners as well as of Agoria and Flanders Investment & Trade .

She started her career as an academic. Subsequently, she worked in mental healthcare and at the King Baudouin Foundation.
She is a member of the VBO executive committee and holds a seat in the Group Joos board of directors as well as in the general assemblies of SDWorx, UZA and Technopolis.

She has been a member of the Gimv board of directors since June 2010.
 

Sophie Manigart is professor Corporate Financing at the faculty Economics and Business Administration of Ghent University. Additionally, she is a partner at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School.

Sophie Manigart is a member of the board of directors of AXA Belgium and holds a seat in the Flemish Council for Science and Innovation (Vlaamse Raad voor Wetenschap en Innovatie, VRWI).

She has been a member of the Gimv board of directors since June 2010.
 

Martine Reynaers is CEO of Reynaers Aluminium NV, one of the market leaders in Europe in the field of high quality aluminium systems for the building industry.

She is also a director of De Tijd vzw (business newspaper), a member of the general assembly and board of directors of Voka – Vlaams Economisch Verbond (Flemish network of enterprises – Flemish Economic Treaty), and a director of Business & Society Belgium.

She is a member of the board of directors of Gimv since 1999.
 

Eric Spiessens is a member of the Executive Committee of Auxipar NV, a holding company that operates mainly in utilities and medicines distribution. He is also a board member in several companies in real estate and energy sector.

He has been a Gimv board member since 1999.
 

Prof. Dr. Christine Van Broeckhoven is Professor in molecular biology and genetics. In 1989, Christine Van Broeckhoven was appointed as Research Director and started her own Laboratory of Neurogenetics in the Institute Born-Bunge, an institute specialized in neurosciences and associated with the University of Antwerp. In 1995, she was appointed as professor at the University of Antwerp, and in 1996 her laboratory was integrated in the VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) where she has been appointed as Director of the Department of Molecular Genetics. She is chiefly known for her pioneering work on Alzheimer dementia and related disorders that was honoured with the American Potamkin Prize in 1993, a prestigious international award. In Belgium, she received the Joseph-Maisin Prize of the National Research Foundation (NFWO) in 1995. Meanwhile, she has received several more scientific prizes such as the international L’Oréal/UNESCO award for Women in Science in 2006, and more recently the European Inventor Award for Research of the European Patent Office (EPO) in 2011.
In 1999, Christine Van Broeckhoven was elected associate member of the Royal Flemish Academy for Science and Art of Belgium. In 2006, she was honoured with the medal of Grand Officer of the Leopold Order by King Albert II of Belgium, and in 2008 she received the title of Chevalier in the Légion d'honneur from president Nicolas Sarkozy, France. Prof. Dr. Christine Van Broeckhoven occupied a seat in the Gimv Board of Directors from 2005 to 2007, and was newly appointed as director in 2011, for a period of four years.
 

Johan Van den Driessche is director at various companies (including VAB and Vyncke Expert). He is also director of the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, The “Huis van het Nederlands”, Brussel and the Voka-Comité Brussel (Flemish network of enterprises Brussels), where he held the position of chairman from 2002 until 2004.

Previously, he was associated with KPMG, as chairman of KPMG EU Tax Centre, managing partner of KPMG tax and legal advisors and a member of the management committee/board of directors of KPMG Belgium. He was also a professor at VLEKHO and what is now called the Antwerp Management School, and a member of the management committee of Verbond van Ondernemingen Brussel VOB(Association of Brussels Companies).
 

Emile van der Burg has been Managing Partner of NIB Capital Private Equity and Chairman of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA). He is a member of the investment committee of several internationally operating private equity funds, Senior Advisor to Deutsche Bank’s subsidiary DB Private Equity GmbH and Chairman of IPEV (International Private Equity Valuation and Reporting Guidelines Board). In the course of his career he served on the supervisory board of a number of listed and privately-held companies.

He has been an independent board member of Gimv since 2005.
 

Francis Vanderhoydonck has a masters’ degree in Law and Economic Sciences and obtained an MBA at New York University. From 1986 until 1998, he worked at Generale Bank, where he held various positions within the department of Corporate & Investment Banking, the department he headed from 1995 until 1998. Currently, he is a partner at Maple Finance Group, a corporate finance advisor.

Furthermore, he has various board positions, such as in the listed companies Resilux and Option.

Bart Van Hooland is an entrepreneur active in Flemish SME’s in various sectors. His main focus is on the production of construction- and garden materials and tools as well as hydro-linked activities such as soil research and diving-and dredging works. He also develops new activities through start-ups or new partnerships.

Furthermore, Bart is a director at IWT, VOKA and De Warande, amongst others.