Mr Vandekerckhove is an international business leader with over 30 years of executive and board-level experience across a broad range of industries. He currently chairs the board of Down2Earth Capital, is Chairman of the Supervisory Board at In2Action and he serves on the boards of Reynaers Aluminium and of Grandeco Wallfashion Group Belgium. He also serves on the boards of a number of social profit organizations.
Mr Vandekerckhove spent much of his career in multiple executive positions at Bekaert, a world market and technology leader in steel wire transformation and coating technologies.
Mr Vandekerckhove holds master’s degrees in mechanical engineering and applied economics, both from the Catholic University of Leuven. He exercises the Sibelco Board mandate as permanent representative of CMV Partners Comm. V..