Les Ridder

Les Ridder is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of ALICE App, a role he has held since November 2024. He is based in Leuven.

Before that, he worked as a software engineer at ExpORL from July 2021 to November 2024.

Ridder studied at KU Leuven from 2014 to 2022 and completed an associate's degree in computer programming at UC Leuven-Limburg between 2023 and 2025. In September 2025 he began a Master of Science in Information Management at KU Leuven, due to run until September 2027.