Providing corporates with competitive solar energy

Francois is a civil engineer in architecture (University of Louvain, Belgium) and holds an MBA from the Vlerick-Leuven-Ghent Management School. His career started by working for Lafarge and Total in Paris. He later joined Hamon, a world leader in heat transfer and air pollution, and moved to Goodex (later Ariba) to develop strategic sourcing activities. In 2005, he joined Dexia Luxembourg as internal consultant in charge of COO projects such as real estate, purchasing and new business development.

Co-founded Enerdeal in 2009 with the drive to contribute to a sustainable future as well as taking on the challenge of entrepreneurship.

Filip is a commercial engineer (University of Leuven) with an MBA from the Vlerick-Leuven-Ghent Management School. He started at PWC as SAP consultant, and went on to Goodex as senior consultant in strategic sourcing where he managed end-to-end negotiation processes for over a 100 million euro. When Ariba acquired Goodex, he joined Intersources as Head of the Customer Support team until the acquisition by Hubwoo where he was appointed Director Alliances and later Head of Benelux-Nordics Services Operations.

Filip co-founded Enerdeal, firstly to take charge of his own success as part of a strong and trustworthy team and, second, to offer added-value in the challenging energy sector.

As a civil engineer in Mechanics (University of Louvain), Grégoire also holds an MBA from the Vlerick-Leuven-Ghent Management School. He spent 13 years managing the implementation of turnkey projects in electro mechanics at Fabricom, a subsidiary of the Suez group.

His latest position was head of the project management department. He then joined Thales as business development manager within the business unit for air traffic control, airport and public transportation. Later, he joined IBM Global Business Services as Business Development Executive for the travel and transportation industry.

Grégoire is a co-founder of Enerdeal and became a game-changer in the solar energy sector with outstanding results for clients and communities internationally.

Cédric graduated master in law from university of Louvain; He is an experienced entrepreneur, who launched various start-ups in the internet and communication sector. He also sold some of these start-ups to major international communication groups, such as Omnicom and WPP.
Since 2011, he is a professional Business Angel and has invested in over a dozen companies in Brussels, Paris and Madagascar.

He is also a professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in various universities such as Solvay Business School and acts as Dean of Virtuology Academy. His fields of experience are business modeling, start-up and scale-up strategy and SME financing. He is the author of the book ‘Pimento Map’ which presents a straight forward method to analyze Business Models.

His exceptional dynamism, his outstanding entrepreneur experience and his rigorous approach of strategic development bring Enerdeal highly valuable and solid growth perspectives. Cédric founded two NGO’s (NewcoPark and Adanso), active in promoting entrepreneurship in Africa.

Benoît graduated as Master of Science in mechanics from the University Southern California at Los Angeles and Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley . He has worked all over the world in various senior management positions for companies like Caterpillar and GDF-Suez.
In 2001, Benoît developed the very first wind park in Wallonia, which he sold afterwards to Air Energy now part of Eneco. Passionate of renewable energy, he is currently developing with the university of Louvain a hydro- turbine designed to be installed on rivers in Africa to generate electricity for the villages.

His international experience and professional network represent a great asset for the development of Enerdeal.

20 years in-depth experience in various fields of communication, i.e. internal, external, crisis communication, media strategy, spokesperson, brand and reputation management
Practical knowledge of an International Financial Institution (IFI) and extensive knowledge of politics, belgian and international organizations and decision-making processes
Quadrilingual professional of the communication

Specialties:
Effective public affairs and PR experiences
Large networking in the belgian and european institutions, media and organizations
Experienced in crisis management
UCL-Mons: In charge of lecture “Ethique de la communication” in Master class Université Catholique de Louvain