Nathaniel Van Parijs

Nathaniel Van Parijs is the founder and managing director of Kimeru, a company he started in February 2016. He is based in Antwerp.

Before that he spent nearly a decade at iDKLIC, a STRATACACHE company, from August 2006 to February 2016, as chief operating officer, managing director and owner. From January 2004 to June 2011 he worked on business development for the Flanders and Dutch market at Herbalgem. His earlier career was at Nokia Bell Labs Antwerp, which he joined in February 1997 as a quality engineer and where he went on to hold roles as customer services engineer, training consultant, product marketing manager, sales development manager for Northern Europe and account manager, remaining until 2007.

He studied electronics and telecommunications and then electrical and electronics engineering at Karel de Grote-Hogeschool, completing a master's degree in 1997, and took an executive MBA at Flanders Business School and at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management between 2001 and 2003. In September 2024 he obtained a private pilot licence and an operating licence for radio communication in aviation.