An average four person family in Europe consumes between 2 and 4 MWh per year.
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Thenergo Leadership
Thenergo believes the quality of its management and employees is a key success factor in its business.
The Management of our company has a proven track record with respect to experience and skills.
Board of directors
Ivo Van Vaerenbergh, non-executive Director
In March 2009 Ivo Van Vaerenbergh was appointed as Non-Executif Director. Ivo Van Vaerenbergh is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Aquafin and Director at Reynaers Aluminium nv, VLEEMO nv, ZiekenhuisNetwerkAntwerpen vzw and Lanbokas/Landbouwkrediet. Previously Ivo Van Vaerenbergh was Chairman of the Board of Directors of VMH (Vlaamse Milieu Holding) and SCK (Belgian Nuclear Research Centre) and he was Director at Indaver. Ivo Van Vaerenbergh is Master in Mechanical Engineering (U Ghent), Master in Environmental Engineering (U Ghent) and Master in Business Administration (MBA) (KU Leuven).
Executive management
Chris Beliën, General Counsel and Company Secretary
Through his work as Manager and Internal Auditor at several companies, Chris Beliën has been involved with a number of mergers, acquisitions and squeeze outs. He prepared an Initial Public Offering for Mauretus insurance and banking group and helped the group grow from 180 to 450 employees. As Secretary of the Board at Thenergo he is responsible for all legal aspects, corporate and business governance and human resources. Chris Beliën has a degree in Law and experience running his own firm.
Kathleen Markey, Chief Operations Officer
Since March 2010, Kathleen Markey is Chief Operations Officer at Thenergo. She has many years of experience in theenergy sector.
Kathleen Markey holds a degree in Applied Economics and Commercial Engineering. She specialized in Finance and Banking at the Loughborough University of Technology (UK). After graduating she worked, for three years, as researcher at STEM, a research group of the University of Antwerp that wants to contribute to the realization of the ideal of sustainable development. Afterwards Kathleen Markey founded her own company,specialized in energy efficient lighting, where she was Executive Director. Until recently she was responsible for business development of water and energy projects for an engineering company based in Brussels.
Ron Schuermans, Chief Commercial Officer
Since January 2010 Ron Schuermans is Chief Commercial Officer at Thenergo. As CCO he is responsible for the Energy Portfolio Management, the business development and the building of new projects.
Ron Schuermans holds a degree in Quantitative Economics at UFSIA, Antwerp and obtained a master in Finance at EHSAL, Brussels. He was CEO in different companies and held senior management positions, amongst others in a Nasdaq quoted company. He has a thorough background in the startup of companies and projects, business development and crisis management, both in the ICT and renewable energy sector.