Solvay Brussels School - Economics & Management

Pr. Carine Peeters

Professor of International Business and Strategy at ULB - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management

After a Master in Economics and PhD in Management Science from –the Université libre de Bruxelles, she spent two years at Duke University as a senior researcher where she contributed to the launch of the Offshoring Research Network (ORN).

In 2006 she became lead partner of the ORN for Belgium. Her research on the globalization of services centers on the learning process, development of organizational capabilities and evolution of firm boundaries associated with diffusion of global sourcing practices, with a particular focus on the offshoring and international outsourcing of advanced and innovative activities.

She is the author of several articles published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, Long Range Planning, and Harvard Business Review among others.

Benjamin Beeckmans

Managing Director - Bluecorp

Benjamin Beeckmans graduated from Solvay Business School in 1997, before working for Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and a privately owned diamond-dealing firm in various marketing and financial positions.

In 2005, he became partner at Bluecorp. Bluecorp had established a subsidiary in 1997 in Sri Lanka  

to facilitate recruitment of qualified personnel for its sister company Redcorp, Belgium's market leader in the distribution of IT material to businesses. 

Today, over 160 IT specialists work out of Colombo for customers based in Europe and the USA.

Benjamin is also in charge of FeWeb (Fédération des Métiers du Web), a founding member of BetaGroup and serves on the board of the Charte eTIC from the Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications.

Dominique Kindt

Regional Director Belgium & Luxembourg - Equaterre, a KPMG firm

Within EquaTerra, Dominique is responsible for the further development of the Belgian market and the advisory team in this region.

He has strong advisory expertise in ITO and BPO across a variety of industries, with significant

experience working in the financial services industry and with supranational government institutions. Dominique has guided companies through all phases of the IT and business process outsourcing lifecycle including assessment, organizational redesign, financial methodologies, project risk management, transition and governance.

Before joining EquaTerra, Dominique headed the Outsourcing Risk Advisory business unit at Deloitte. There he was responsible for the delivery of many large scale IT and business process outsourcing projects. His past work experiences at Deloitte and elsewhere span multiple geographies, a lengthy list of notable clients, and diverse business operational areas including financial, administrative, IT, logistics and fleet, personnel and research services.

Dominique is also Chairman of the Board of the European Outsourcing Association (EOA) – Belgian chapter.

Benjamin Docquir

Partner with the Belgian independant law firm Simont Braun

Benjamin Docquir’s key practice areas are computer and ICT law, including data protection law. He has specific experience in the field of software licensing, including open source software, protection of computer programs and databases.

Benjamin regularly assists companies and public bodies in structuring, drafting and negotiating computer contracts and complex ICT projects.

He also advises clients on data protection issues, to ensure compliance in complex corporate projects. Benjamin’s practice also encompasses e-commerce issues, including consumer protection and cross-border aspects.

Benjamin Docquir is an academic associate within the ULB’s Department of Economic Law and is a guest lecturer in the Executive Master in Marketing & Advertising organized by the Solvay Business School.

He is a member of the Benelux chapter of the Licensing Executives Society (L.E.S.), of the Legal Task Force within the Belgian Direct Marketing Association (A.B.M.D.), of the Belgian Computer Security Club (Belcliv/Clusib) and of ITechLaw

Louis Guelette

Business Development at BO partner

Louis Guelette graduated in Data Processing at the High School of Namur. He joined IBM Belgium/Luxembourg in 1973. In 1990 Louis Guelette began working in Channel Management while on assignment in the IBM EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) headquarters in Paris. Returning to IBM Belgium in 1992, he managed several Business Units.

On assignment in Paris, Louis Guelette has been appointed in 1998 Vice President, Distribution, Central and Eastern Europe / Middle East and Africa in Vienna. He did lead the Business Partner Organization, the Global Mid Market Business, ibm.com, the NetGen and the Marketing Business Units.

In 2001, he came back to IBM EMEA Headquarters in Paris as Vice President, Business Management and Sales Execution for the Small & Medium Business Market Segment. In July 2003, Louis Guelette has been appointed General Manager, SMB and Alternate Channels, IBM Global Services, Europe, Middle East and Africa; in July 2005, Louis Guelette moved to Madrid and held the same responsibilities for Southwest Europe as Vice President, SMB and Alternate Channels, Global Technology Services, IBM Southwest Europe.

Since January 2009, Louis is back in BeNeLux as Vice President, Sales, Global Technology Services and Strategic Partnership Developments. Louis Guelette’s passion is to drive an optimized “Go To Market” model made of e-relationships and increased cooperation between customers and Market Influencers.

Henri-François Lenaerts

Partner with the Belgian independent law firm Claeys & Engels

Henri-François Lenaerts specialises in labour and employment law. He advises clients especially on redundancy, restructuring and relations with trades unions and their representatives within companies. He has published a book and various articles on these subjects and lectured extensively.

He graduated from the University of Louvain (UCL) and obtained a special degree in labour and economic law at the University of Ghent (UGent).

Pieter Hoekstra

Pieter Hoekstra has a specific focus on successful group- or system changes by giving insights in the difference between destructive versus growth patrons within (organizational) relations. He is convinced that organizations are blocking themselves to success if they keep on blaming others. Strategy fails easily when processes, structure and systems are not mature, inflexible or not in place. He makes the link and dare to challenge people on behavioral level.

Since 1988 he has been active in the Services Industry, starting as a trainer for Pink (currently Getronics Pink Roccade) and  consultant at Shell. In the ’90 he became Service Manager and implemented Service Level Management, based on ITIL, at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.  As Marketing Manager and HR Recruiter, he moved to the business side within the Airline industry and worked for 4 years in a management programme. Inspired by the combination of Competence Management and companies lacking a competitive IT strategy, he started his own company Humanit. He moved to Belgium in 2000, where he worked for 4 years for CTG, building up their successful business unit offering: Quality, Testing, Security and Validation Services for Life Sciences and Chemical Industry.

At the end of 2004 he signed at Quint Wellington Redwood, an international independent management consultancy firm (30 Million Euro turnover, 18 offices worldwide) specialising in IT-related organisational challenges and accompanying IT sourcing & service strategy and implementations in the roll of Country Manager Belux since 2006.