Since 2011, Thierry Geerts is Country Director of Google Belgium. He graduated as Solvay Business Engineer at the VUB. After his studies, he started working as auditor for Coopers & Lybrand (now PWC), but quite soon his passion for media, online marketing & innovation led him to management & board positions at - among others - Corelio Publishing, Nostalgie, VAR, Clickx & Passe-Partout. In 2008, he became CEO of Corelio Business Development & Arkafund. 

Thierry is also member of the “Digital Minds for Belgium” of Deputy Prime Minister De Croo, “Le Conseil du Digital” of Walloon Minister of Economy & of the board of IAB Europe.

Thierry believes we are witnessing a new industrial revolution called the digital revolution. According to him, 5 billion people will be connected on the global network in 2020. This revolution will force us to reinvent the way we live & work and will therefore have a strong impact on business, media, mobility, health, etc. Thierry sees how the game is changing & our entire world needs to be reinvented. He admits that this great opportunity can also be seen as a threat, especially for those who do not feel the need to innovate & foresee those opportunities.

Thierry is positioned in the heart of online marketing & innovative entrepreneurship. With a digital revolution changing the way every single sector is working, it is most interesting to discover his views on the way technology & innovation are redefining finance & to find out about the impact digitisation has on how we will do business in the future.