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Benoît Pirotte CEO
Benoît (born in 1961) graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering with a specialization in electronics from the University of Liège. From 1984 to 1994 he worked at Olivetti as an Account Manager. Between 1994 and 1998 he was the Sales & Marketing Director of CTS,
a division of Olivetti specializing in network services. In 1998, among other positions, Benoît was Deputy General Manager of Intrasoft International. Here he was in charge of business operations and information technology and services. Since 1999 he has been the Managing Director of Contraste Europe. The company has sustained a growth of 1200% since this time. |
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Jean-Pierre Cardinael CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
Jean-Pierre Cardinael is Civil Engineer in Electronics and Civil Engineer in Applied Mathematics from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). After 5 years in the Research Laboratories of MBLE in Brussels within the compilation group, he joined CGER/ASLK as a Computer Scientist in 1973. Until the end of 2005, he was Managing Director of Fortis Bank in charge of Information Services, Facility Management and Procurement. He was also Director of FB Insurances.Jean-Pierre Cardinael is furthermore Professor at the University Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur, where he lectures Management of Computer Resources in the last year of Information Science. |
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Bernard Marchant DIRECTOR
Bernard Marchant graduated in applied economic sciences at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL – Belgium). From 1984 till 1985 he was fiscal advisor at Arthur Andersen. In 1986 he joined the Olivetti Group as General Manager for Belgium and Luxembourg, Vice-President for Europe and Managing Director of Olivetti France till 1997. He then became Corporate Vice-President of the Belgian Group Bekaert till 2000, also acting as Member of the Board and General Manager of Bekaert Merchant Products. From 2000 till 2001 he is Managing Director of 9 Telecom, and since July 2000 he is Managing Director of Rossel & Cie, a major Belgian press publisher. |
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Marc Evrard DIRECTOR
Marc Evrard, born in 1962, holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science and a Master’s Degree in Business Management from the Free University of Brussels (VUB). He was first a network&IT consultant for Logica in the UK, the Netherlands and Belgium, and an independent application developer in Paris. He then moved to Unisys Canada in Montreal, with presales and technical functions. In 1991 he founded Contraste Canada Inc (Montreal), and in 1994 he created Contraste Europe. Today, he is still actively involved in Contraste Europe, in charge of Service Delivery, Marketing Strategy and Communication. He specializes in Financial Institutions and became a CFA Charterholder in 2006 (Chartered Financial Analyst). |
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