Jan Wellens

Jan Wellens is the founder of mygrid, a company he started in October 2021, and is based in Brussels.

He spent seven years at Worldline Global, joining in August 2014 as a hardware development engineer and moving in November 2017 to a role in product design development, which he held until September 2021. From July 2018 to September 2020 he was co-founder of Mountain Minimalist. Between June 2010 and June 2012 he worked on the powertrain with the Umicore Solar Team, and from September 2007 to June 2010 he was an animator with Scouts Sint-Jan Diest. In 2006 he took a student job as a kitchen aid with the Belgian Defence, returning in September 2007 for a student job as a clerk.

Wellens studied electrical and electronics engineering at Groep T - Internationale Hogeschool Leuven, where he also completed a master's degree with a focus on intelligent electronics and a post-graduate in entrepreneurial studies. He then took a bachelor's degree in industrial and product design at Howest and a master's degree in the same field at Ghent University, and in 2016 completed professional education with The Interaction Design Foundation.