Thomas Schimmel

Thomas Schimmel is the chief executive officer of Helion Market Research, a position he has held since July 2009. He is based in Gent.

Before that he spent five years at BARE International, joining in August 2004 as business development manager and becoming business development director for Europe in July 2006. From 2001 to 2004 he worked at Live Nation Belgium as festival manager and concert promotor, and between January 1998 and December 2000 he handled commercial activities and external programming at Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER.

Schimmel studied history at Ghent University, graduating with a master's degree in 1995. He followed several programmes at Vlerick Business School, including Negotiating To Create Value in 2005, the General Management Program in 2006 and 2007, an executive master class in B2B sales and marketing in 2008 and 2009, and courses on M&A and on venture capital and private equity in 2020. He also took an executive master class in B2B sales and marketing at SDA Bocconi.