Felix Van de Maele

CEO

Felix Van de Maele is co-founder and CEO of Collibra. He holds a master in applied computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, a master of science in software engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Ecole des Mines de Nantes (France) and Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina) and further received a master in general management from the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School.

Felix was part-time researcher at the Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel where he focussed on ontology-focused crawlers for the semantic web and semantic data integration.

Stan Christiaens

COO

Stan Christiaens is co-founder and COO of Collibra. He has been an R&D engineer in the supply-chain and warehouse management industry and a researcher at the Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, Belgium.

He contributed to several national and European projects on ontology engineering. Stijn holds a MSc in Industrial Engineering (in IT) from the Katholieke Hogeschool Gent (KiHo), a MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, a degree in Project Management (PMI) from the European University College and a Postgraduate in Industrial Corporate Governance at the European University College.

Benny Verhaeghe

Director Sales & Marketing

Benny Verhaeghe has over 10 years experience as a sales and marketing professional, most recently as a Business Manager Major Accounts for the Enterprise & Partner Group ( EPG ) at Microsoft and prior to that as a Regional Sales Manager at Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP software). He started his commercial career working for several start-ups with a strong international focus.

Damien Trog

CTO

Damien Trog is co-founder and CTO of Collibra. Prior to Collibra, Damien was a researcher at the Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Damien has a Professional Bachelor in Applied Computer Science from the Hogeschool Gent and a Master in Applied Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is passionate about applying multiple disciplines to produce great software.

Pieter De Leenheer

Research Director

Dr. Pieter De Leenheer is assistant professor at VU University Amsterdam in the Business, Web and Media group (since Nov 09). He is also co-founder and research director of Collibra NV/SA, a Brussels-based semantic technology spin off from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium. From 2002-2009, Pieter was senior scientist at VUB STARLab, and lecturer at the same university.

Pieter holds a PhD in computer science on community-based ontology evolution, and a MSc in principle computer science. Pieter authored more than 30 publications in various books, international journals and conferences, among which he co-edited the Springer book "Ontology Management for the Semantic Web". He gives master lectures including Database Theory, (Web) Information Systems, and Semantic Web languages. He is member of ACM and IEEE.