Instructors

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Elena Shibkova

Director

Elena Shibkova, Director of our Capital Markets and Accounting Advisory Services Group, has broad international experience, working in IFRS conversion projects and IFRS accounting advisory services. Elena is a member of our international network of IFRS experts (Global Accounting Services) and is accredited to provide accounting advice to audit engagement teams and clients on the most complex IFRS technical issues. She is also a member of our Belgian IFRS Committee and a regular speaker in the seminars and trainings we provide for clients and local audit teams. Elena is a fellow member of the international accounting body ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the UK).

Herwig Opsomer

Director

Herwig Opsomer is a director and certified auditor within PwC bedrijfsrevisoren/rÃ©viseurs d'entreprises. He holds a graduate degree in Applied Economics from Sint-Ignatius in Antwerp.
Next to his audit clients, he gives several trainings both within PwC and several other institutions, including IFB, UAMS Antwerp and the accounting association LBC-NVK. His main topics include IAS, accounting and tax law.

Hugo Hambursin

Senior Manager

Hugo Hambursin is a senior manager in PwC's Audit department. He has performed several statutory audits and audits of management accounts for consolidation purposes and has a great deal of experience in internal control assessment, both in US Sarbane-Oxley and traditional assignments within the industrial and commercial sectors. Hugo possesses a deep expertise in US and Belgian GAAPs, gained over his 10 years of professional experience.

Kristof De Smedt

Senior Manager

Kristof De Smedt is a senior manager in our International Corporate Treasury, Financial Risk Management and Energy Risk Solutions team. He holds a master's degree in applied economics with a major in accountancy & tax from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). Kristof has a broad knowledge of treasury risks, ranging from small corporates to very large multinationals.

Koen de Grave

Director

Koen De Grave is the Tax Accounting Services Leader for PwC Tax in Belgium. He began his career as a full time instructor of economics and accountancy courses and then joined PwC in 1998. He has a broad base of knowledge in both Belgian GAAP and Belgian corporate tax and works extensively in these areas. He has additional specialisation in Tax Accounting in US GAAP (ASC 740) and IFRS (IAS 12). Recently, he gained further international experience in this area on a tour of duty in PwC US's National Tax Accounting Services practice. During his stay in the US, Koen was also one of the six members of the PwC US IFRS Tax Steering Committee.
Koen currently represents the PwC Belgium's Tax department on our Financial Reporting Committee and is also a core team member of the European Tax Accounting Services group. Furthermore, he is an international trainer who regularly gives seminars in the area of tax reporting in both the professional and the academic worlds and has co-authored several articles in the field.

Laëtitia Meunier

Manager

LaÃ«titia Meunier is a manager within our CMAAS (Capital Markets and Accounting Advisory Services) team. Her seven years of experience as an auditor includes the audit of the consolidated financial statements of several groups, as well as the audit of statutory accounts of commercial and manufacturing companies and pension funds.
She is now working on IFRS conversion projects, IFRS technical reviews and accounting advice within the CMAAS team. As an instructor for Training for Business, LaÃ«titia gives courses on accounting-related matters (e.g. IFRS Essentials, IFRS Updates, Mastering the Basic Principles of Consolidation).
She holds a degree in Commercial Engineering from the Management School of LiÃ¨ge (HEC) and a CESS in "Audit, contrÃ´le et rÃ©visorat" from the same institution. Since 2010, LaÃ«titia has been a certified auditor.

Monique Mariamé

Senior Manager

Monique MariamÃ©, a senior manager within PwC's Insurance and Benefits Actuarial Services department in Brussels, assists both national and international clients on employee benefits matters. Monique has 13 years of professional experience, 10 years of which has been as a consulting actuary in the field of employee benefits. She is an actuary accredited by the Banking, Finance and Insurance Commission.
Monique assists international clients with their conversion to IFRS/IPSAS accounting related to employee benefits. She also supports audit departments in assessing their level of technical provisions of IORP (Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision) based on Belgian legislation. Additionally, she has been involved in assignments related to the determination of pension cost for Belgian public institutions.
Monique holds Masters' degrees in Mathematics and Actuarial Sciences from the UniversitÃ© Libre de Bruxelles. She is member of the IA|BE and is an accredited actuary by the FSMA.

Olivier Kaczmarek

Senior Manager

Olivier Kaczmarek is a senior manager in our International Corporate Treasury, Financial Risk Management and Energy Risk Solutions team. He holds a master's degree in management science from the Solvay Business School, UnversitÃ© Libre de Bruxelles, and is a certified financial risk manager. With a background in banking, Olivier has focused on financial and commodity risk management for the last seven years.

Philippe Rasquin

Director

Philippe Rasquin, Director, has led the valuations of numerous banking, financial service and industrial sector companies. He has led the preparation or review of numerous PPAs. He has also provided strategic advice to numerous companies in Belgium and abroad, supporting increasing shareholder value.
Today, Philippe is in charge of Valuation and Economics for the Belgian market. He acquired strong experience in valuing and analysing financial, industrial and service activities through the management of and participation in financial operations in the three sectors. Having worked in the industrial sector, banking sector and consultancy, he understands the characteristics and particularities of each of these environments, and is able to analyse a project in light of its strategic, operational and financial characteristics. Philippe is a frequent speaker on valuation and shareholder value/value-based management topics. He holds a degree in Electromechanical Engineering from the UniversitÃ© Libre de Bruxelles and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA).

Sebastian Harushimana

Senior Manager

Sebastian Harushimana, Senior Manager, has technical expertise in IFRS and US GAAP, notably gained from his role as an IFRS and US GAAP trainer and IFRS lecturer at the University of LiÃ¨ge (HEC-LiÃ¨ge), assisting Patrice Schumesch.
As a Capital Markets and Accounting Advisory Services Group senior manager at PwC Belgium, Sebastian has gained extensive practical experience in helping international groups with their IFRS conversion projects or providing them with technical IFRS advice. In addition, Sebastian is often consulted by audit engagement teams on complex technical IFRS issues. Sebastian is also an expert in IPSAS, for which he regularly gives international trainings. Mostly recently, he trained representatives of six African countries in Accra, Ghana.
Sebastian is a fellow member of the international accounting body ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the UK), and a member of PwC's Global ACS (Accounting Consulting Services), a network of highly qualified IFRS specialists whose objective is to promote good and consistent interpretation and application of IFRS.

Sammy Hofmans

Assistant Manager

Sammy Hofmans is an assistant manager within our CMAAS (Capital Markets and Accounting Advisory Services) team. He has over 5 years of experience providing assurance and advisory services to national and international organisations. At present, Sammy mainly works on IFRS conversion projects, IFRS technical reviews and giving accounting advice. As an instructor at Training for Business, Sammy gives courses on accounting-related matters such as leases and IFRS essentials. He holds a degree in business economics from EHSAL.

Anton De Greef

Senior Manager

Anton De Greef is a senior manager within the IPSAS/IFRS Advisory team of PwC in Brussels, dedicated full-time to providing IPSAS and IFRS advice to clients. Anton holds a masters' degrees in Applied Economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and in Industrial Engineering from the Hogeschool Gent. He has experience both as an internal and external financial auditor.
Recognised for his technical and practical expertise in both IPSAS and IFRS, Anton is currently acting as a trusted IPSAS adviser to several international public institutions.

Jan De Laet

Director

Jan De Laet is a director within the IPSAS/IFRS Advisory team of PwC in Brussels.
He is a member of the PwC Global Public Finance & Accounting network, whose objective is to share experiences from IPSAS conversions in various countries. He is fully dedicated to providing IPSAS/IFRS advice to our clients. Jan possesses extensive experience in giving internal and external courses on IPSAS applications and implementation. He spent two years with PwC US, where he provided advice and practical guidance on the different aspects of conversion projects.
Furthermore, Jan holds a master's degree in Applied Economics and graduated as a Commercial Engineer, Finance from the University of Antwerp. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Belgium and a member of the Belgian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (IBR).

Gisèle Vandeweerd

Director

GisÃ¨le Vandeweerd is a director at PwC and the founder of Training for Business. She has over 20 years of experience in the audit and control of consolidated financial statements. Since 2009, GisÃ¨le has been a member of the Institut des Reviseurs d'Entreprises, which provides professional trainings. She is also a member of the Technical Committee at PwC, whose objective is to manage complex consolidation issues that require specific accounting advice about Belgian GAAP or in IFRS.

Elena Shibkova

Director

Laëtitia Meunier

Manager

Alexis Van Bavel

Partner

Alexis Van Bavel is an Audit partner within PwC bedrijfsrevisoren/rÃ©viseurs d'entreprises. He is a member of the Financial Reporting Standards Committee on IFRS and Belgian GAAP matters and a Qualified Statutory Auditor (Reviseurs d'Entreprises). He has also been a member of the Institut des Reviseurs d'Entreprises since 1999.
Besides his audit activities, Alexis has been a speaker at several PwC seminars on corporate and financial reporting and has issued PwC publications on best practices and requirements for Belgian audit committees and remuneration committees, as well as on reporting requirements for listed companies.

Gaëtan Schoonbroodt

Advisor

GaÃ«tan Schoonbroodt is an advisor in PwC Belgium's Systems and Process Assurance group. GaÃ«tan's expertise resides in IT internal controls reviews and business process controls, focusing on SAP platforms. He has built his professional experience within PwC through several engagements, mainly in SOX and J-SOX environments in the automotive, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. His mixed information technology / business backgrounds allow him to work on multiple types of projects.

Vincent Panis

Manager

Vincent Panis joined PwC Belgium in 2004 and holds a degree in Applied Business Economics and master's in Operations and Technology Management from Ghent University.
In his career, he has gained experience through external and internal audit assignments focusing on business processes and IT. He specialises in internal control attestations and reviews (Sarbanes-Oxley 404 and Japanese SOx) as well as ERP audit and advisory. Vincent is currently working as a manager within the Belgian Risk Assurance Services practice as part of the Systems and Process Assurance (SPA) department. Since 2009, he is a Certified Information System Auditor (CISA).

Wim Robijn

Advisor

Wim Robijn joined PwC Belgium in 2007 as an assistant in our Systems and Process Assurance practice where he focused mainly on IT General Controls and Computer Assisted Audit Techniques / Business Data Analysis. He then continued his career taking on the role of advisor within the same department and extended his IT and data analysis experience.
Wim has already given several courses on data auditing, both internally (within PwC Belgium and internationally) and externally (e.g. Solvay Business School, Training for Business).

Wim Rymen

Senior Manager

Wim Rymen joined PwC Belgium in 2003 and completed an international secondment at PwC Canada in Toronto between 2006 and 2008.
He gained experience in internal controls, both at a business process and IT levels, through external and internal audit assignments, Third Party Assurance (e.g. SAS70), Sarbanes-Oxley 404 and Bill 198 (Canadian SOx) attestations, and related advisory engagements. Furthermore, Wim has been focusing on internal controls in ERP environments, mainly SAP R/3 at process, security and application levels. In this area, Wim has performed and managed multiple reviews, both from audit and advisory perspectives. Finally, he has led the implementation of SAP governance, risk and compliance tools both in Belgium and Canada. He is currently working as a senior manager within the Belgian Risk Assurance Services practice as part of the Systems and Process Assurance (SPA) department.
Wim holds a master's degree in Business Economics (Handelsingenieur Beleidsinformatica, 2003) from the University of Hasselt, Belgium.

João Rodrigues Frade

Senior Manager

JoÃ£o Rodrigues Frade is a senior manager in PwC's Technology Consulting practice, focusing on systems interoperability via the use of service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud technologies and enterprise architecture (EA). Over the last 9 years, JoÃ£o has worked on complex information systems in various sectors: for financial institutions, European institutions and the public sector.
JoÃ£o holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the Instituto Superior de Economia e GestÃ£o, a master's degree in Information Systems and Technology Management from the Instituto de Empresa Business School, a certificate in Product Platform and Product Family Design from MIT, and a TOGAF Enterprise Architect Certificate from The Open Group.

Marion Muller

Senior Manager

Marion Muller is a senior manager at PwC Advisory in Brussels. She is the lead of Cost Management within our Financial Management and Corporate Reporting group, which offers a variety of services in different domains of finance and accounting.
Before joining PwC, Marion worked for multinationals for over 10 years. As a business consultant she has worked on Oracle Financials and (business) process redesign projects. She has also served as a logistics controller where she managed the Inventory Accounting and Control team and represented the finance function in several logistics optimisation projects. As Finance and Control Manager, she was responsible for all the finance activities of four business units and the liaison with the account managers for the major accounts.
After her studies in Business Economics, she obtained a post-graduate Executive Master of Finance and Control (Registered Controller) at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. She is currently completing her Internal Audit Certification (CIA) at the Institute of Internal Auditors. In addition, she has been a registered member of the Nederlands Accounting Instituut since 2007.

Max Stahlecker

Principal Advisor

Max Stahlecker is a principal advisor in PwC's Technology Consulting practice, focusing on business IT alignment through enterprise architecture. With 10 years of experience in the IT industry, he has spent the last six years as an IT and enterprise architect. His clients are positioned in various industries, ranging from the financial services sector and logistics to government institutions.
As an enterprise architect, Max builds bridges between business and IT. On assignments, he models enterprise architectures based on business and IT services, performs architecture-based quality assurance activities and trains colleagues in enterprise architecture matters.
Max holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Engineering and Management from the Technical University of Karlsruhe (TH) and is a TOGAF and IAF business/IT certified architect.

Stijn Goedertier

Manager

Stijn Goedertier is a manager in PwC's Technology Consulting practice, focusing on business process management (BPM) and enterprise architecture (EA). Stijn has worked on various business-IT alignment projects for European institutions, public sector organisations, telecom operators and financial institutions.
Stijn holds a master's degree in Commercial Engineering in Information Systems from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and a PhD from the same university. He is an expert in various techniques for the (re)design, implementation and quantitative analysis of business processes. Stijn is also TOGAF 9, ITILv3 and PRINCE 2 certified.

Eros Artuso

Senior Manager

Eros Artuso is a senior manager in the PwC Sustainability Services team. He holds a master's degree in environmental engineering and has a diploma in project management. He is also an EU ETS Accredited Verifier. Eros has been with PwC for five years.

Martin Böhme

Manager

Martin is a Manager in the Treasury Services practice of PwC Belgium. While Martin has international experience in a variety of financial management areas, his focus is on cash-optimisation projects, covering working-capital cash and liquidity forecasting. For public and private organisations, he has identified and quantified cash opportunities in the order-to-cash and purchase-to-pay processes, and provided implementation assistance.
Prior to PwC, he was in several consulting, positions advising clients in working capital management and other finance and performance management topics, such as budgeting and planning processes. Martin holds a master's in business administration and is a part-qualified accountant (ACCA).

Kristof De Smedt

Senior Manager

Olivier Kaczmarek

Senior Manager

Qualified instructors of ISW Limits

ISW Limits is a spin-off from the "Katholieke Universiteit Leuven"/"Université Catholique de Louvain" specialises in optimising welfare within organisations.

ISW Limits uses a reasoned vision and tools and methods that are 'evidence-based'. This means that its methods are based on scientific research as much as possible. ISW Limits' aim is to be its clients' preferred external professional partner on psychosocial aspects of work. Its objective is not only to promote motivation, work engagement, well-being, satisfaction, performance, innovation and loyalty but also to avoid complaints due to stress, absenteeism, undesirable behaviour and burn-out.

ISW Limits' expertise lies in:

identifying the psychosocial factors that are crucial for the welfare of customers by means of quantitative and qualitative risk analysis.
indicating the levers that optimise people's performance and well-being and offering targeted involvement, training, individual guidance, coaching and tools to put this advice into practice.

Anke Luts

Project Manager - Trainer - Counsellor

Anke is a project manager in the ISW Limits support team. Since 2009, she has mainly been involved in the areas of undesirable behaviour, trauma, assertiveness and stress. She gives individual support and coaching sessions as well as group training. In addition, she does scientific research to enhance the activities of ISW Limits. Anke holds a master's degree in clinical psychology from the KU Leuven and a master's certificate in work and organisational psychology.

Tina Scholiers

Project Manager - Trainer - Counsellor

Tina is a project manager in the support team at ISW Limits. She is mainly involved in the areas of undesirable behaviour, stress, trauma and assertiveness. She gives individual support and coaching as well as group discussions and training. Tina is also involved in developing e-mental health tools and follows up on contacts and questions that are raised. She holds a master's degree in work and organisational psychology from the VUB.

An Thys

Senior Project Manager - Trainer - Counsellor

An Thys has worked with ISW Limits as a senior project manager since 2000. She is responsible for the areas of conflict management and undesirable behaviour at work and supports integrated welfare projects. She holds a master's degree in sociology and a master's in family and sexological sciences at the KU Leuven. She also holds a certificate in "social mediation in organisations".

Sofie Mertens

Senior Project Manager - Trainer - Counsellor

Sofie Mertens has been working with ISW Limits since 2005. In her first few years, she was involved in training, counselling, group intervention and expert support. Since 2011, as a Senior Project Manager, she has been responsible for 'Employee Assistance', including hotlines for employees, individual counselling and coaching programmes, trauma care and dismissal guidance. In addition, she is still active as a trainer and counsellor for various profit and non-profit organisations. Sofie holds a master's degree in Psychology from the KULeuven. She has also followed training to become a Prevention Consultant Level 2 and a Trust Person.

Rosina Pirrera

Psychotherapist

Rosina Pirrera holds a master's degree in psychology from the UCL. She has enhanced her therapeutic skills by taking a large number of additional courses, such as in psychotherapy, stress and trauma, sophrology and EMDR. She now works as a psychotherapist and specialises in the treatment of stress, burn-out, trauma and conflicts.

Sofie Vuerstaek

Senior Project Manager - Trainer - Counsellor

Sofie Vuerstaek has worked with ISW Limits since 2004. She's a Senior Project Manager and mainly responsible for the areas of coaching, leadership and stress, resilience and health. In the field, she works as a coach, trainer and consultant for both employees and supervisors within various profit and non-profit organisations. She holds a master's degree in psychology from the KULeuven, followed training on communication and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and became a certified coach in 2011.

Qualified instructors of Equations

Equations has more than 15 years' experience in business and consultancy. It invests at least a fifth of its working time in continued training and in research and development. Its approach is practical, results-oriented and fully connected to the reality of the job.

Our activities :

Training and support to personal development
Teambuilding
Facilitation of change management
Coaching

Equations masters a broad variety of analysis and action tools. Some of these tools have been created by Equations, with constant attention to validation of its models and ensuring their effectiveness. For every assignment, we select the most relevant combination of tools to ensure achievement of the objectives. Diversity is the stuff of our approach.

Albéric Augeard

Senior Manager - Trainer - Consultant - Executive Coach - Equations

Albéric Augeard has over 20 years of experience in leadership development roles as an internal and external consultant, coach, facilitator, and course designer. He has worked extensively in Europe as well as in North America, Middle-East, and Asia, helping develop leaders and executives from many global organisations. Albéric helps teams and individuals discover and mobilize their own creative potential, explore the power of getting different perspectives, and reframe challenges into opportunities.

Isabelle Eeckhout

Isabelle Eeckhout - Managing Partner Equations - Trainer- Consultant - Coach

Isabelle Eeckhout co-founded Equations Consulting in 1993 and has been one of its partners ever since. She is a consultant in organisation design & people development. She has over 20 years' experience in training, coaching, facilitation processes and team consolidation. She manages Equations, develops the business, acts as a consultant and manages a team of experts in human sciences. Equations Consulting has provided training services to PwC Luxembourg for ten years.

Marie-José Bisaillon

Qualified trainer for MBTI® certification for OPP

Marie-Jo Bisaillon is an experienced trainer, facilitator and coach who has more than 25 years of experience in soft-skills training. She is also a course leader and examiner at OPP, publishers of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator in Europe. She has been delivering qualifying training in the use of this model for the past 15 years. She has worked with Equations since 2003.

Anne de Wergifosse

Senior Manager - Trainer - Consultant - Coach

After a 10-years experience as a people manager in various service companies in Belgium and in The Netherlands, she has decided to switch to a freelance career. She has been working as a senior trainer and coach

Anne de Wergifosse is a senior soft-skills trainer and coach. Her international working experience helps her facilitate multicultural groups. She has worked with Equations since 2005. She enjoys combining training groups and coaching individuals over longer periods. She has extensive experience with (European) public and private corporations.

Christian Cruyplandt

Senior Manager - Trainer - Consultant - Coach

Christian Cruyplandt is a consultant in organisational development and a trainer in management. He has worked with EQUATIONS since 1998. His international operational experience covers project management, reorganisations, process optimisation, HR management, business development and general management in a wide range of environments, such as healthcare, international career management and business intelligence.

Philippe Brasseur

Senior Manager - Trainer - Consultant - Coach

Philippe Brasseur is an experienced creativity trainer and consultant for Equations Consulting. He has written many books and articles about creativity.
His audiences range from managers to healthcare workers or teachers. He is an expert with the APM (Association pour le ProgrÃ¨s du Management).

Qualified instructors of Ascure

Ascure Academy is a Knowledge Management Institute for Operational Risk Management offering education, awareness and experience exchanges.

Ascure has recently been acquired by PwC. As a consequence the two academies joined forces.

Bart De Win

Senior Manager

Bart De Win (Ascure Principal Consultant and OWASP Belgium board member). At Ascure, Bart is also the leader of the "Application Assurance" competence centre. Bart is a principal consultant with an extensive academic background. His broad view of software security is based on the various projects that he has executed and managed.

Dieter Sarrazyn

Senior Manager

Dieter is a senior manager and has excellent knowledge at a strategic, tactical and operational level regarding security-related subjects. His main focus lies in performing penetration tests (both external and internal), performing security audits, creating and evaluating security architectures, teaching Hacking Inside Outâ"¢, creating and setting up vulnerability-management frameworks & tools. Dieter is also the team leader of the Technical & Security Risk Management competence centre.

Geert Vandenbranden

Manager

Geert Vandenbranden has extensive experience in ICT and information security-related disciplines at strategic, tactical and technical levels. In his current position as Senior Information Security Consultant, he focuses on information security governance/programme management, information security policy design/implementation, information risk management, information security awareness programmes, business continuity planning, business continuity testing, intrusion detection/prevention techniques and security architectures and infrastructures.

Rudy Hoskens

Partner Forensic Services, PwC Brussels

Rudy Hoskens is a partner and competence leader in the PwC Forensic Services team. He holds a master's degree in law and bachelor's degrees in economic sciences and marketing, modern languages and in Spanish. He also studied at the Belgian Police Academy. Rudy has been with PwC for ten years.

Jacqueline Gram

Director in Forensic Services

Jacqueline Gram is a director in the PwC Forensic Services team. She holds a master's degree in toegepaste economische wetenschappen, business administration and forensic auditing. She is a certified Fraud Examiner and a registered Forensic Auditor. Jacqueline has been with PwC for six years. She is responsible for corporate fraud investigations, disputes, fraud risk management, prevention and detection, background searches of people and entities, etc.

Ine Lejeune

Partner

Ine Lejeune graduated in law from Ghent University and has a postgraduate in tax law. She is the Global Indirect Taxes Network Leader at PwC, responsible for leading a network of over 2,000 PwC experts based in 150 countries.

She has developed her VAT expertise over a period of 25 years and has led large-scale international projects involving teams in multiple jurisdictions focusing on indirect tax strategies, indirect tax functional effectiveness, business structuring, cost reduction through outsourcing, shared service centres, joint ventures, centralising compliance, e-invoicing and e-archiving and automation using SAP, Oracle and tax engines. Her experience stretches over a number of different industries, including fast-moving consumer products, financial services, infocoms, technology, automotive, logistics, airlines, travel, industrial and pharmaceutical companies and not-for-profit organisations.

She is a recognised Tax Adviser and a member of the Belgian Institute of Accountants and Tax Advisers (Instituut van Accountants en Belastingconsulenten/Institut des Experts-Comptables et des Conseils Fiscaux (IAB/IEC)) and the IFA (the International Fiscal Association).
She received the Belgian TaxMan of the Year Award 2009.

Geert Bogaert

VAT Director

Geert Bogaert, a director in PwC's Indirect Tax group, has over 16 years of experience in VAT, 11 of which are with PwC. He is a business VAT and ERP systems expert (mainly SAP and tax engines) and specialises in VAT-related business and process optimisation and integration. Geert has worked for a variety of multinational companies in a wide range of industries (including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, telecom, sports equipment, electronic devices, paper and soft drinks). He is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars (both internally at PwC and externally).
Geert worked five years as Corporate VAT Manager at a major paper manufacturer. During this period, he was a core team member working on major projects, such as a global SAP implementation project.

Jean-Paul Mondon

Senior VAT Manager

Jean-Paul Mondon is a senior manager with 15 years of experience in VAT with a focus on:

VAT audits and e-audits
systems reviews and implementation
proper VAT configuration
tax automation projects
tax function effectiveness projects
internal control processes and procedures
e-invoicing and e-archiving.

Jean-Paul is also member of the OECD's Informal Consultation Group on Tax Electronic Audits, which developed SAF-T 2.0 and other related guidance notes.