Laurens Verbeke
Laurens Verbeke is a co-founder of joule, based in Gent. He has served as co-founder and chief marketing officer of the company since December 2017.
Before that, and for a period alongside his work at joule, he spent several years at Bacardi, where he was sponsoring and events manager for BELUX from May 2014, experiential lead for BENELUX from February 2016, and experiential manager for W-Europe from October 2017 until February 2020. He joined Bacardi from Microsoft, where he was consumer marketing communication manager between November 2013 and May 2014, and had earlier worked as a project manager at Square Melon from November 2011.
Verbeke studied at Ghent University, completing a bachelor's degree in business economics in 2009, a master's degree in business economics: marketing in 2010, and a master's degree in IT in 2011. He attended OLVA, where he followed the economics-mathematics track.
Career
Roles
JouleCo-Founder & CMODec 2017 – Present
- BacardiExperiential Manager W-EuropeOct 2017 – Feb 2020
- BacardiExperiential Lead BENELUXFeb 2016 – Oct 2017
- BacardiSponsoring & Eventsmanager BELUXMay 2014 – Jan 2016
- Microsoft#20factoryConsumer Marketing Communication Manager (as vendor for Go Forward)Nov 2013 – May 2014
- Square Melon#283factoryProject ManagerNov 2011 – Nov 2013
Education
Ghent University#2schoolMaster's degree, IT2010 - 2011
- OLVA#211schoolHigh School, Economics-Mathematics2000 - 2006
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