Jo Vandesompele founder
Jo Vandesompele has a Master of Science in Bio-engineering (1997, UGent), a PhD in Medical Genetics (2002, UGent) and is Professor in functional genomics and biocomputing at Ghent University since 2007. He is author of more than 70 scientific articles in international journals, including some pioneering publications in the domain of real-time PCR. Because of his internationally recognized expertise in this domain, Jo is regularly invited as speaker at international meetings and courses. Together with Jan Hellemans he developed advanced and universally applicable quantification methods for automated and correct qPCR data analysis. He is also one of the founders of the RDML consortium.
Jan Hellemans founder
Jan Hellemans has a Master in Biotechnology (2000, UGent) and a PhD in Medical Genetics (2007, UGent). He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Ghent University Hospital and supervises a core facility for automated DNA-isolation, sequencing, genotyping and high-throughput real-time PCR. Jan is the designer and programmer of the qBase software that is being used by over 4000 researchers worldwide for qPCR data analysis. Together with Jo Vandesompele, he is active in the development of new concepts and algorithms for improved qPCR data analysis, and one of the founders of the RDML consortium. Jan Hellemans is author of several scientific articles in high-ranked journals, and active as a teacher in qPCR courses.
Marc Schijvaerts
Co-founder and Managing Director of PeopleWare NV (1994-), a Belgian software development company. Prior to PeopleWare, Marc worked as a senior ICT consultant.
Sofie Bekaert
Sofie Bekaert has a Master of Science in Bio-engineering (1996, UGent), a PhD in Applied Biological Sciences (Cell and Gene Biotechnology, 2001, UGent) and currently is working as postdoctoral Technology Developer for a valorization consortium of the Industrial Research Fund (Biomarked, IOF-UGent), this valorization consortium aims at validation of innovative biomarkers for aging and cancer. She is one of the founding partners in the context of the Asklepios longitudinal population study (>2500 participants) on atherosclerosis and biological aging. She is author of over 20 peer-reviewed paper in international journals and is promoter of several doctoral students. Sofie Bekaert was advisor-coordinator of 2 innovation and networking platforms from Ghent University, BioScope-IT and Power-Link.
Bert D'huyvetter co-founder, secretary of the board
Master in Law (1993) and MBA in Management (1994)
Active in the financial sector, with 6 years of experience in corporate finance and 4 years in private banking.