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Round Table
Experts

Tom Buttiens,
Marketing Manager Unibet

Biggest mistake?: Missing the BitCoin train.
The perfect death?: Maybe never, maybe we'll all live on forever in the Metaverse!
Fiction heroes?: The Turtles. Without a doubt. And Tommy Shelby, but that's more work related

Bram Coppens,
Founder/director KARAT

Favourite motto: Tomorrow is another day.
Favorite poet: Khalil Gibran. ‘Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you ‘
Best thing about your friends?: An honest, not so sugarcoated opinion.

Charlotte De Mets,
Head of Marketing Warner Music Benelux

Favourite motto: Life is a process of trial and error
What do you appreciate most about your friends?: Their timing. They seem to always know when to call me. They’re just there when I need them.
Your favourite colour and flower?: I love blue and I’m always happy with an arum

Eline De Munck,
Founder Odette Lunettes

Your most important character trait?: Discipline and perseverance. You can have all the ideas you want, if you don’t DO, it doesn’t count.
Your idea of happiness?: Love. In the end that’s what it’s all about. For yourself, the people close to you and preferably for everyone else as well.
The perfect death?: In matching lingerie. That means I took the time to care for myself, to have the courage to spend time and the details. I live for the details.

Vic Dresen,
Marketing Manager at Burger King

Favourite motto?: Fortune favors the brave.
Current mood: ‘Can’t wait to see what the future holds’
What talent do you wish you had?: Music and cooking.

Isabelle Dumortier,
Executive Director at EY

What talent do you wish you had?: Hear a piece of music for the first time and be able to play it myself.
Your most importsant character trait?: Resilience. Being a good listener. Positivity and a knack for adventure and entrepreneurship.
Favorite pastime?: Reading, spending time with friends, enjoying the little things with my son. And all things adventurous, of course. Skydiving, golfing, travel and sailing.

Charlotte Ghekiere,
Brand and Marketing Manager Willy

Your favourite motto?: Put your energy in people and things that will give you energy. Keeping that thought in the back of my mind really helps me make better choice and shrug off the bad ones
Your favourite pastime?: I feel happiest on my snowboard, suffing, or at a festival. Some music, a fresh beer, the sun going down. Ah.
Which historic figures do you really hate?: Trump, Hitler, Dries Van Langenhove.

Hugo Hanselmann,
CEO & Founder of HuHeHa

Your favourite motto?: The world is changed with your example, not your opinion (Paulo Coelho)
Favourite place to live?: It’s my ultimate dream to have multiple places to live, and to travel from one to another according to my needs or current mood.
Best thing about your friends?: Their energy! The warmth and unconditional friendship they give me, sharing the good and the bad.

Thomas Hofman,
Founder/Ep KARAT

Favorite place to live: Buenos Aires
Favorite painter: That has to be Bendt Eyckermans
Best thing about your friends?: Being unstrained

Yannick Khayati,
Founder of Cosmos Collective

Favourite motto?: Everyday is a party and you’re in charge of decoration
Your idea of happiness?: Happiness is in the small things, a piece of wisdom I ignored for far too long. Until recently I thought it was hidden in a pair of new Jordans, LOL. I put in the work with a therapist and realised that taking a break and making space for small things can really feed the soul.
Favourite place to live?: New York, LA, Dubai, switching cities every four months

Katia Mouvet,
Group Internal Communications & Experience Studio Manager Puratos Group

Your favourite pastime?: Being creative. Arranging flowers, designing cards and T-shirts, painting, getting crafty with my kids.
Your favourite motto?: Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. Goethe said that.
If you can’t be yourself, who would you be?: Simon Sinek.

Mathias Van Dosselaer,
Co-founder yondr

Something you really hate: DT-mistakes
What talent do you wish you’d have: Patience
What mistake is tolerable: The horrible game of Waasland-Beveren. Every week, again and again.

Andy Van Hassel,
Global Marketing Director Duvel Moortgat

Favourite motto?: Do it with passion, or not at all.
Your most important character trait?: I’m creative, can leave the linear thinking path and discover new solutions.
Favourite pastime?: Thinking how things can be better, how to improve any and everything around me, always!

Pieter Van Leugenhagen,
Managing Partner yondr

Favourite place to live?: I’ll have a sunset view in Ibiza anytime
Which mistake is excusable?: Those who take the risk, those who put themselves out there, trying to make the world a better place for all of us, they deserve some credit
Best thing about your friends?: I can count on them 24/7 and they take me as I am. And I love how we’ll grow old, but never really grow up.

Heleen Van Pelt,
Creatief Directeur Stad Antwerpen

Favorite painter or composer?: My one true idol in life is Chopin. And even though he’s an underdog, I’ll go for the painter Georges Braque, a most colorful person.
Where would you like to live?: In Marseille! No doubt about it. I lived and worked there for a while and they had me at Pastis.
Best thing about your friends?: Honesty and humour—two things that can’t live without one another. And two things you can’t do without in life.

Dewi Van De Vyver,
CEO & Co-founder Flow Pilots

Your idea of being miserable?: Not moving forward and forgetting to think differently. Not listening to one another and being blinded by our own biases.
Historic heroines?: Women like Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. They made society leap forward, yet had to work twice as hard to make it happen. The first two did groundbreaking research in IT, but they’re much less famous than Steve Jobs or Bill Gates.
Which talent would you have liked to have?: Music! I have the utmost respect for musicians because I know how much work, dedication and discipline it takes to play an instrument to make it sound smooth and heartfelt. I play a little accordion and guitar, but I’ll never be a virtuoso.

Gaetan Dewingaerden,
Head of 5G corporate program Proximus

Your favourite pastime?: Running my fruit farm.
Your idea of being happy?: Peace of mind.
Modern-day heroine?: Angela Merkel.