About me
As firstborn in an entrepreneurial family, Rob spent his childhood in the rural east of Belgium. He and his younger brother were primarily raised by their grandmother, for their loving parents were very busy building up a company.
After attending boarding school for six wonderful years, Rob went to study economics at the Catholic University of Leuven. He joined the local student union and was impressed by their organization and what they could leverage, and charmed by their spirit of camaraderie and democracy. A few years later he became co-president. The year after Rob was elected president of VVS, the Flemish National Union of Students and he became also active in ESIB – the National Unions of Students in Europe.
Even before graduation, Rob started to work with a team of independent consultants, elaborating on his master dissertation and building an intellectual capital quantification methodology. He spend little over a year in this team as a self-employed consultant. Since he never really got to know his parents when he was younger, he decided to join the family firm. It has turned out one of his best decisions, not only on a personal level but also professionally. He gained considerable responsibilities and lived trough valuable business experiences.
In 2007 Rob decided that he wanted to hold those experiences to the light of academics, and enrolled for an MBA at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, were he will study until the summer of 2009.