Geert Wellens has written a number of remarkable bestsellers on investing, real estate and finance. He was successively a journalist, publisher and director for the financial-economic publishers Roularta (Trends, Knack, Kanaal Z) and Mediafin (De Tijd, L’Echo). He has also worked for a number of years on the stock market for a major financial institution.

After obtaining his diploma of business engineering from ICHEC, Gregory began his career in financial markets as institutional equity sales specialist, mainly in New York, for both Petercam and Kempen&Co. In 2006 he moved to Private Banking as responsible for the investment and wealth planning departments of UBS Belgium where he later became Executive Committee and Board member, a position that he kept at Puilaetco Dewaay after the takeover of UBS Belgium. Since January 2018, he supports Econopolis in the development of Private Banking activities and new products.

Valérie Coene has a degree in applied economics. She gained experience as an executive secretary and ICT teacher. She provides management support and is responsible for events and Middle Office reporting.

Lise graduated as a Master of Laws at the University of Ghent in 2014, whereafter she chose to specialise in financial law at the University of Glasgow. She started her career as a financial services consultant at a big four consultancy firm, where she focused on data protection and cyber security.
Lise joined Econopolis in March 2018 as a Legal & Regulatory Advisor.

Thierry François has more than 20 years experience in corporate finance, wealth management and private equity. He qualified as a ‘commercial engineer’ at the Solvay Business School (ULB) and is CFA charterholder. He has built extensive experience working for financial institutions (BNP Paribas Fortis and ING) and families (Korys, the family office of the family Colruyt). Thierry is part of the Econopolis private and institutional wealth management team.

Maarten Geerdink studied to be an economist at the University of Amsterdam. He started his career as a consultant in corporate finance. He then worked as a portfolio manager at a pension fund in the Netherlands and at an alternative asset manager in London. In 2009 he moved to Brussels to work for a financial institution where he was fund manager for a number of total return funds and was responsible for the investment strategy. Maarten is Chief Investment Officer at Econopolis, and in the capacity of head of the investment committee he has final responsibility for the investment policy.

After obtaining a Master in Engineering at the University of Ghent, Matthieu Jacobs started to work as a consultant. After one year experience, he decided to follow an extra Master in Finance at the Antwerp Management School, after which he joined the Econopolis team in June 2016. Within Econopolis Wealth Management, he is responsible for Operations and closely following the newest technologies.

Fred Janssens obtained a Master’s degree in Applied Economic Sciences at the University of Brussels (VUB) and an additional Master of Finance at the Antwerp Management School. After internships at a large international institution specialised in asset custody and an independent Belgian private bank, Fred joined Econopolis where he led the Middle Office departement for several years. He is currently Compliance Officer of our wealth management activities.

Jeroen Kerstens obtained the degree of Master in Applied Economics at the University of Antwerp in June 2015 and graduated as a Master of Finance at the Antwerp Management School a year later. After finishing his Master’s project at a European asset manager, Jeroen joined the Econopolis team in July 2016 as a Wealth Management Analyst.

Liesbet Loos is a master in Applied Economic Sciences. Before joining Econopolis, she was the manager of several cultural organizations, among which the Cultural Center 'De Velinx' in Tongeren. Liesbet was the operational director of the vzw Rataplan in Antwerp. At Econopolis, she's Office Manager and is responsible for accounting and FSMA reporting.

Filip Palmans holds an academic degree in translation, but has spent the last 23 years working in the financial sector. He started his career with a global custodian where he held various positions in operations and relationship management. In 2005 he made the switch to asset management and worked successively for Petercam, Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management and ABN AMRO Private Banking. As a Senior Wealth Manager at Econopolis, Filip serves both institutional and private clients. He is also a Board Member at Make-a-Wish Belgium-Vlaanderen.

Bernard Thant graduated as master in Commercial Sciences at EHSAL (now known as Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel). Afterwards he completed a one-year postgraduate in Finance and Investment Management. After his studies he joined Société Générale Private Banking Belgium (previously Bank De Maertelaere) where he worked for most of his career as a financial analyst. During that time, he also acted as portfolio manager equities at the same company for a number of years. Bernard joined the Econopolis Wealth Management team in September 2014 as an equity analyst.

Sam studied economics at the KU Leuven, after which he completed an MSc in International Finance at HEC Paris. He started his career at Credit Suisse in London and later joined Exane, where he was active as a sell-side analyst covering the consumer staples sector. Upon his return to Belgium, Sam worked for a family office, where he was responsible for a global public equity portfolio. Sam joined Econopolis in November 2017 as a Portfolio Manager.

For many years Marine Van Reeth is working as an allround administrative assistant in different sectors.
She was working as handling en operations assistant in private aviation and administrative co-worker in the oil sector. In 2014 she took a step to the financial business. Since mid 2016 she joint Econopolis to be responsible for the office management.

Guido Van Woensel graduated as a Master in Law (KU Leuven) and also holds a degree in Public Administration Sciences (University of Antwerp). In his career he worked as a company lawyer for different international enterprises in the construction business. He also managed Public Development Companies: Domus Flandria (long term financing and building of 10.000 social houses), POM Antwerp (land development of industrial sites).
Guido has a large experience of more than 30 years as a general lawyer and he is specialized in PPP development and real estate.

Jacqueline Floch holds a Masters Degree in applied mathematics and finance. She has worked in banking and re-insurance. Initially focused on interest rate risk management in a bank, Jacqueline then became responsible for liability insurance risk analysis and the pricing of re-insurance contracts at Munich Re group. At Econopolis Switzerland, she is currently responsible for the Wealth Coaching activities. Jacqueline is based in Geneva.

Gino Delaere is master in Applied Economics (University of Antwerp) and holds an MBA (Xavier Institute of Management in Bhubaneswar, India). For over a decade he has been specializing in emerging markets worldwide and traveling the world looking for interesting investment opportunities. Previously he worked for several large asset managers where he was actively involved in several thematically inspired equity funds. Today, as the head of the Econopolis office in Singapore, he spends a significant amount of his time in Asia and Latin America, and is responsible for the stock selection in the emerging markets funds.

Leona Tan Siew Hoon graduated from Indiana University Bloomington, US, majored in Finance and International Business. She started her career as an analyst in a financial-data company in the US. Upon her return to Singapore, she spent a few years in corporate finance before dedicating herself to working as an equity analyst at a brokerage firm in 2004. She joined a large Singaporean asset manager in 2007 and was involved in various roles such as portfolio manager for global and China-India equities funds. She joined Econopolis Singapore Pte Ltd in April 2017 and is responsible for stock selection in the emerging markets funds.