About Marc

Practice came first.

I am a Belgian entrepreneur and practitioner faculty. I work with senior leaders on AI, foresight, innovation and strategy under pressure.

I was born in Bruges, Belgium. At age 11 my parents gifted me a ZX Spectrum mini-computer, one of the early darlings of the personal computing era and as I quickly understood, a precursor to revolutionary things to come in technology and innovation.

Wanderlust led me to pack up my life in Belgium and book a one-way ticket to Hong Kong, and from there by slow train into the bucolic countryside of Southern China. What was meant to be an intense but brief adventure into a new culture turned into a nearly 13-year journey of cultural discovery, self-actualization and entrepreneurship.

China challenged and pushed me, often to my limits. Starting, growing and ultimately selling a company there was the toughest professional challenges I ever faced, and yet the most rewarding. After the sale of my business I lived in Northern Thailand for a while to recover and get ready for the next stage in my journey.

Ever a technologist and innovator at heart, I returned to the West where I co-founded a self-funded innovation lab. We imagined, designed and built experimental technologies and interfaces we would want to use in the future, including chatbots with natural language processing, a state-of-the-art community engagement platform and range of other tools.

In 2010, I began teaching what I had been doing. Since then I have designed senior leadership programmes, innovation capstones, AI curricula and foresight sessions across the GCC, Europe, Asia and North America.

My delivery is about eighty-five percent experiential: clinics, workshops, applied work and simulation. I want participants to leave having practised the work they will be expected to do next.