Philip Maeyaert
Chairman Independent director
Philip Maeyaert has a master’s degree in Law from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and an MBA from the Vlerick Management School. He spent the whole of his career at Deloitte as a financial services and industry auditor for listed and multinational businesses including energy companies, both in Belgium and in France, serving as a partner from 1999. He teaches at the EHSAL Management School. Philip currently holds directorships at Beobank, Federal Insurance and FinFactor.
Kathleen Defreyn
Independent director
Kathleen Defreyn holds a master’s degree in Commercial and Financial Sciences from Lessius University College, Antwerp. She started her career at Ernst & Young Belgium. From 1999 onwards, she successively worked as financial controller at Willemen Groep, financial director at Franki and CFO at Willemen Groep and CFO at Willemen Groep and Viabuild! Since mid-2022, she has been CFO of the Van Laere construction group.
Elvira Haezendonck
Independent director
Prof. Dr Elvira Haezendonck holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She is full professor at the VUB, guest professor at the University of Antwerp (UA), and guest lecturer at Erasmus University, Rotterdam and at C-MAT (UA). She teaches courses on management, (competition) strategy, project management and port strategy, and is promoter of several chairs (research partnerships) on e.g. infrastructure and sustainability. Her research covers topics in the field of (port) management, strategy and policy: complex project evaluation, circular economy, environmental strategy, competitive analysis and stakeholder management. Elvira also holds various board positions within and beyond academia.
Helga Van Peer
Independent director
Helga Van Peer has a master’s degree in Law from the Catholic University of Leuven. She was partner and global head of public law at Allen & Overy, an international law firm, until the end of 2020. Helga is an accredited mediator, lawyer, chairman of the board of SFPIM Relaunch (a subsidiary of the Federal Holding and Investment Company) and a director at Childfocus. She is also an External Procurement Oversight Panel Member at ESM (Euro Stability Mechanism).
Kristof Vande Capelle
Director
Kristof Vande Capelle holds a master's degree in Applied Economics (major in Corporate Finance) and a Master of Arts in Economics, both from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). He is Chief Financial Ocer of Gimv. Before joining Gimv in September 2007, he worked at Mobistar as Director Strategic Planning and Investor Relations. Other professional experiences are Credit Analyst at KBC and Academic Assistant at the University of Leuven
Marc Vercruysse
Director
Marc Vercruysse has a master’s degree in Applied Economics from the University of Ghent. Marc has been working for Gimv since 1982, successively as Internal Auditor, Investment Manager, Head of the Structured Finance Department, Chief Financial Ocer (1998-2012) and Head of the Finance Department (2012-2015). He is currently an independent advisor to the CEO of Gimv. Through his various functions at Gimv, Marc has a great deal of experience with respect to listed companies and how they operate.
Peter Vermeiren
Director
Peter Vermeiren has a master’s degree in Commercial and Financial Science from Lessius University College, Antwerp (part of KU Leuven), a Certification in Advanced Valuation from the Amsterdam Institute of Finance, a ‘Leading an Organisation’ MBA from Dexia Corporate University at Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School and has followed various courses on corporate valuation. Peter worked successively for Banque Paribas Belgium, Artesia Bank and Belfius in various advisory and management positions. He is currently Director of Wealth Management Flanders, after four years as Director of Corporate Banking for the Brussels/Brabant zone at Belfius. Peter is also a director of several companies, as well as of Voka Metropolitan.
Martine De Rouck
Director
Martine De Rouck holds a master’s degree in Mathematical Sciences from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and in Actuarial Sciences from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She has worked in various executive positions at BNP Paribas Fortis Bank, including as CEO of Bank van de Post and BCC Corporate (Alpha Card Group). Martine has also been a director of several companies (including Belfius Bank and Orange Belgium), is currently a board member at Financière Saint Paul, Patronale Life, Sun Child and Stichting tegen Kanker, and is member of the audit committee of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.