Ben Abelshausen

Ben Abelshausen is a co-founder of ANYWAYS, a role he has held since September 2016, and is based in Lille. Since December 2012 he has also been the owner of Itinero BVBA. His stated areas of expertise are route planning software, cycling, OpenStreetMap, product management and software as a service.

Between February 2014 and February 2016 he worked at Eurostation as a mobility IT and design expert, and before that he spent several months as a GIS developer at Digitaal Vlaanderen. From July 2008 to November 2012 he was a consultant at Ignotec, having previously worked as a .NET developer at Qframe from 2006 to 2008 and, in two earlier periods in 2004 and 2006, at AMBelgium NV.

He studied informatics at KU Leuven, completing a master's degree between 2000 and 2005, and went on to a master's in computer science at Ghent University from 2007 to 2012.