# Alexander Alonso - Full Context for AI Agents

> This file provides comprehensive context about Alexander Alonso for AI agents.
> Source: TechWiki.ai - The Belgian Tech Encyclopedia
> Last updated: 2026-07-31

## Identity
- Name: Alexander Alonso
- Role: General Manager
- Company: BD
- Location: Ghent, Belgium
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-alonso-048907189

## Expertise
- belgian-tech-ecosystem
- leadership
- resilience
- company-culture
- family-business
- recruitment

## About
TLDR

Alexander Alonso is General Manager at BD.

Background

In this Connexi podcast episode, Alexander Alonso, General Manager of medical technology company BD Benelux, discusses three pivotal moments: moving alone from Tenerife to Belgium at age 17 to study, becoming a father in 2013 despite fear of failure, and being appointed GM two years prior after openly stating his ambition from his very first BD job interview. He details his people-first leadership style: no fixed office, walking 10,000 steps a day around HQ, round tables with young employees, actively soliciting feedback from his team, and publicly sharing his mid-day cycling rides on Strava to model flexible working. He recounts a career crisis where a competing GM offer left him sleepless for three days, resolved after watching Ric Elias's Hudson plane-crash TED talk, choosing to stay at BD. His stated ambition is to make BD the best employer in Belgium by 2023-2025, and he closes with a plea to older business leaders to stop dismissing the post-1985 digital generation as unambitious.

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Appears alongside

Peter Leyman (https://techwiki.ai/people/peter-leyman/llms.txt) · Nathalie Christiaens (https://techwiki.ai/people/nathalie-christiaens/llms.txt) · Daan De Wever (https://techwiki.ai/people/daan-de-wever/llms.txt) · Katrien Pauwels (https://techwiki.ai/people/katrien-pauwels/llms.txt) · Micheline Van de Voorde (https://techwiki.ai/people/micheline-van-de-voorde/llms.txt) · Thijs Claes (https://techwiki.ai/people/thijs-claes/llms.txt) · Wim Ballieu (https://techwiki.ai/people/wim-ballieu/llms.txt) · Jozefien De Feyter (https://techwiki.ai/people/jozefien-de-feyter/llms.txt)

Talks about

Belgian tech ecosystem (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/belgian-tech-ecosystem/llms.txt) · Leadership (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/leadership/llms.txt) · Resilience (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/resilience/llms.txt) · Company culture (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/company-culture/llms.txt) · Family business (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/family-business/llms.txt) · Hiring & talent (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/recruitment/llms.txt) · Advisory Board · Succession (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/succession/llms.txt) · Work-life balance (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/work-life-balance/llms.txt) · Servant Leadership

From public interviews and talks · updated 2026-08-01.
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## Related Pages
Agents can crawl these for connected context:
- [person] Peter Leyman: https://techwiki.ai/people/peter-leyman/llms.txt
- [person] Nathalie Christiaens: https://techwiki.ai/people/nathalie-christiaens/llms.txt
- [person] Daan De Wever: https://techwiki.ai/people/daan-de-wever/llms.txt
- [person] Katrien Pauwels: https://techwiki.ai/people/katrien-pauwels/llms.txt
- [person] Micheline Van de Voorde: https://techwiki.ai/people/micheline-van-de-voorde/llms.txt
- [person] Thijs Claes: https://techwiki.ai/people/thijs-claes/llms.txt
- [person] Wim Ballieu: https://techwiki.ai/people/wim-ballieu/llms.txt
- [person] Jozefien De Feyter: https://techwiki.ai/people/jozefien-de-feyter/llms.txt
- [concept] Belgian tech ecosystem: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/belgian-tech-ecosystem/llms.txt
- [concept] Leadership: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/leadership/llms.txt
- [concept] Resilience: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/resilience/llms.txt
- [concept] Company culture: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/company-culture/llms.txt
- [concept] Family business: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/family-business/llms.txt
- [concept] Hiring & talent: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/recruitment/llms.txt
- [concept] Succession: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/succession/llms.txt
- [concept] Work-life balance: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/work-life-balance/llms.txt

## How to Reach
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-alonso-048907189
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/people/alexander-alonso/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/people/alexander-alonso/llms-full.txt

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