Ben Springael

Ben Springael is chief executive officer of Cogetix, based in Antwerp. He has been with the company since March 2017, joining as a system engineer before becoming cloud operations manager in January 2020 and cloud architect in November 2023, a role he held until taking up the chief executive position in May 2025. From November 2023 to May 2025 he was also a cloud architect at HighGround.

Before joining Cogetix he was a system engineer at ECU Worldwide from April 2016 to March 2017. He spent three years at Aertssen, first as an ICT support assistant from February 2013 and then as a junior system engineer from February 2014 until April 2016, and began his career on the ICT helpdesk at Katoen Natie in September 2012.

He studied network management at Syntra from 2011 to 2012, attended Karel de Grote-Hogeschool from 2009 to 2011, and holds a diploma in informaticabeheer from JOMA Merksem. He also attended Pito Stabroek.