"I had my Bachelor’s degree in engineering, later I worked several years in IT consulting. People around me are mostly technical. I always want to step out of my comfort zone to see what it's like to study in a business school, and gain a more business point of view.

I love science and new technologies, through my bachelor’s study and years of working, I have known that from a science discovery to benefitting people’s daily life, there is a commercialization process to go. As an innovator and entrepreneur, you need knowledge of the whole process."

“Vlerick helped my decision to change my career path. I chose Vlerick because I wanted to broaden my knowledge outside of engineering, more into business management. I learned so much, from Corporate Finance to Decision-Sciences, and from Strategy to Big Data and Analytics. Now that I am back at work, I really see the difference, because I have a more holistic view of a business as a whole, I can jump in during a conversation with all the C-suite, because I can "speak" their language and understand their points of view.”

“Although I have an engineering background, I decided to pursue a business degree, because I had no intention of starting in a typical position where lots of students with my background start in (e.g. quality engineering in life sciences, project engineering in soil management etc…). 

Secondly, I’ve always enjoyed a challenge, doing something different, grabbing opportunities along my path and opening new doors. Pursuing a business degree was something different, something exciting, something that was going to open many new doors for me, so when I go the opportunity I decided to go for it.”