Jürgen Degrande

Entrepreneur in Residence

In 2015, Jürgen Degrande co-founded a healthy pet food company, Edgard & Cooper. Today the scale-up has a team of 200 working in offices in Kortrijk, London, Paris, Rotterdam, Madrid, Nuremberg and Milan – and its products are sold in more than 10,000 locations across Europe. Jürgen heads up both the sales team and people team.

Before starting his company, Jürgen was based in New York at The Cookware Company. He is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Vlerick Entrepreneurship Academy.

Who am I?

  • MBA at Vlerick Business School
  • My expertise
  • Distribution strategy
  • Go-to-market
  • People and HR
  • Sales
  • Scale-ups
  • Fast moving consumer goods
  • Sustainability

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Sylien Kesteleyn

Sylien Kesteleyn

Portfolio Manager