Giny Boer

CEO, C&A

Giny Boer is CEO for C&A Europe. Giny is known as a strong leader who adapts quickly to new environments and business challenges. C&A makes fashion for everyone, while always thinking of future generations and the environment. Her task today is to strengthen the image of C&A through modernising.

Eric Lauwers

CEO, ARVESTA

Eric Lauwers is the current CEO of the Arvesta, market leader in agricultural and horticultural supplies in Belgium. Arvesta employs 2.100 people who realize an annual turnover of about € 1,5 billion. This turnover puts Arvesta among the top 100 Belgian companies and although the company is rooted in Belgium, it has European footholds in the Netherlands, France and Germany. Its export market expands even further including overseas customers in North America and Asia.

Tobias Tousseyn

Country Managing Director, VEEPEE BENELUX

Leveraging the company's European scale & knowledge to strengthen Veepee as an e-commerce leader in the Benelux - this is what Tobias Tousseyn is dedicated to as Veepee Country Managing Director Benelux. After joining the company in 2012 as Logistics Manager, then leading the Marketing department for four years, Tobias took over the management of the company in Belgium in 2018. Subsequently, his scope expanded to the entire Benelux. In this role, Tobias has been consolidating Veepee's position as a thought-leader, a major e-commerce player and an attractive employer. Tobias previously worked as a strategic consultant at Bain & Company. He studied civil engineering at Ghent University.

Jean-Michel Oughourlian

French psychologist

Jean-Michel Oughourlian is an Armenian-French neuropsychiatrist and psychologist as well as a writer and philosopher recognized both in France and the United States for his collaboration with René Girard and his work on the mimetic theory of desire.