Board of directors

Dominique Moorkens began his career within the Alcopa family group as an automobile dealership manager. He took over as director in 1981 and in this role he restructured the group, based on the principles of good governance. The Alcopa group, of which he was CEO and chairman of the board for very many years, has evolved from its automotive roots into a diversified holding company that invests in sustainable medium-sized European companies.

Dominique Moorkens is also a director of Carmeuse, and chairman of the board of Coprem. He is involved in numerous or-ganizations dedicated to philanthropy and entrepreneurship; chairman of the Board of Mékong Plus. He is honorary consul of the Republic of Korea.

Vincent Bribosia has an MA in Law (Université de Liège) and a master’s degree in management from CEPAC (ULB). He has al-so followed executive education programs at the London School of Economics and Harvard Business School. He joined TEX-AF from the Suez-Société Générale de Belgique group where he held various positions, including chief of staff of the CEO, Gérard Mestrallet. He was secretary and member of the Management Board of Société Générale de Belgique and a director of numerous companies, including Finoutremer S.A., Chanic SA as well as several unlisted companies. He was also on the staff of the minister for employment (1983-86). In 2000 Vincent Bribosia acquired Suez-Société Générale de Belgique group’s stake in Chanic and is now its chairman. She is also a director and general treasurer of AMADE, the World Association of Chil-dren’s Friends, in Monaco.

Charlotte Croonenberghs is a Master in law (KU LEUVEN). She graduated magna cum laude from ESCP EUROPE (Paris & London) with a Master in International & European Business.  She started her professional career with a lot of experience in FMCG. She was marketing director and member of the management committee of her division at L'Oréal. She then joined Vi-sionHealthCare as Group Marketing Director and was responsible for various strategic projects in digital & e-commerce. She is currently developing the Baobab Collection brand in the United States. She is the daughter of Mr Philippe Croonenberghs.

Gérald Croonenberghs has experience in the aviation industry. Prior to joining the group, he spent 10 years as a co-pilot and then captain, flying Boeing aircraft for commercial airlines, namely  in Indonesia, Belgium and Dubai. This experience gave him a perspective on different cultures and an understanding of the importance of effective communication and teamwork. He holds a master's degree in business from HULT International Business School and is currently in charge of the develop-ment of TEXAF's digital business. He is the eldest son of Philippe Croonenberghs.

William Croonenberghs holds a Master's degree in Management from the IE Business School after having obtained his Bachelor's degree in Management Engineering from the University of Antwerp. He started his career as a consultant at CBRE, where he worked in the field of commercial real estate for 2.5 years. He then joined the Belgian real estate developer ION, where he worked for two years as a Business Development Consultant in charge of the acquisition of new residential and commercial real estate opportunities in Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. In addition to his practical knowledge, he graduated from the KU Leuven in the "Postgraduaat Vastgoedkunde/Postgraduat in Real Estate Studies" programme, covering the different facets of real estate. He is currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa, and he supports TEXAF in its real estate activities. He is the son of Philippe Croonenberghs.

After graduating in business engineering at Solvay Brussels School (ULB), Christophe Evers began his career at Umicore. In 1989 he joined Cobepa, where he became CFO and joined the executive committee. In 2001 he joined the executive committee at bpost, with responsibility for Business development, real estate and all non Mail and Retail activities. From 2004 to 2010 he was a partner at Drakestar Partners, an investment bank specialized in technology. Christophe Evers is a professor of finance and strategy at the Solvay Brussels School and author of several publications.

Master in Business Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from Solvay Brussels School (ULB). As a consultant at McKinsey and Roland Berger, he provided services to several industrial companies on major strategic, operational and technological issues. He then became an advisor to two Belgian ministers (including the current Prime Minister), led the Belgian policy on digitalisation, artificial intelligence and digital skills, founded AI4Belgium and led the Data Against Corona working group. He is currently working at Waterland, an independent private equity firm, which focuses on growing Belgian SMEs. He also accompanied Texaf in setting up its digital campus in Kinshasa and in developing its technology investment strategy. He contributed to the development of UNICEF's largest four-year programme ($500 million) in Lebanon and was selected as one of Belgium's "40 under 40".

A graduate of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Brussels, he has a long experience in textiles in Africa. He was first seconded to Kinshasa by the British group Tootal Textiles as financial manager of CPA Zaire and, in 1994, he worked in the Cha group, for which he set up a distribution channel for textile products throughout Africa; he held various posts as financial and general manager and sat on the board of several group companies. He was the last general manager of Congotex and is currently executive director of United Nigerian Textiles, the largest group of textile factories in Nigeria.

Eline Pardaens holds a Master's degree in Business Engineering (ICHEC), option finance, obtained magna cum laude. She started her career in the Texaf group as financial manager of the subsidiaries in DRC. She then became financial director of Korongo Airlines, a partnership in Congolese aviation between Brussels Airlines, George Forrest International and other Congolese investors. After 3 years in the aviation sector, she continued, for 6 years, in the Forrest International Group where she was respectively management controller based in Lubumbashi and financial director of A.E.M.I. (industrial pole) in Kinshasa. She is currently working for Connexafrica DRC, one of the leaders in multimodal logistics based in DRC and Zambia, as well as representative of the Hapag-Lloyd shipping line. She is in charge of the finance and controlling of the company and provides financial support to the related companies.
 

A business engineering graduate of Solvay (1983) and IFRS-certified from UCL (2005), Pascale Tytgat is statutory auditor (1990). She is founding managing partner of BST Réviseurs d’Entreprises (1991). She has sat on the qualification examination jury of the Institute of Statutory Auditors of Belgium since 2006 and was a member of its Quality Control Commission for 20 years (1995-2016). She has also accomplished many financial expertise assignments in Belgium and France.

Nathalie Ulrich obtained a Master's degree in Germanic Philology (KULeuven) and in Pedagogy (UCLouvain) as well as a diploma in SME Management (Solvay). She has gained extensive experience in Human Resources at local and international level (Befimmo, Proximus, Millicom), notably as Director of Human Resources and Communication at HeidelbergCement and as a member of the Board of CBR SA, some of its subsidiaries and pension funds. In parallel, she contributed to the creation of start-ups active in the IT and commercial field. She is also involved in philanthropic activities as a board member of SOCIALware (Techsoup) Benelux.

A civil engineer who graduated from the Faculty of Applied Sciences at Université libre de Bruxelles (ICME 88), Jean-Philippe Waterschoot began his career at the TEXAF group in Lubumbashi in 1989. He held various operational posts at the UTEXAFRICA textile factory, and was its managing director up to the time when the textile branch merged with Congotex. He is director of the National Business Federation of Congo, director and permanent representative of the CBL-ACP Chamber of Commerce, vice-president of the Belgo-Congolese CCBCL Chamber of Commerce, director of several non-profit and business associations in DRC and Advisor in Economic Diplomacy with the Belgian Embassy in Kinshasa. He is an Officer of the Order of Leopold.