Overview
Bart Vanhaeren is the CEO and co-founder of InvestSuite, based in Leuven, a company he started in June 2018. Since May 2026 he has also been CEO and co-founder of Young Early Starters, and he has sat on the supervisory board of Leuven MindGate since June 2016.
From January 2013 to May 2018 he was chief executive officer of Bolero and, over the same period, managing director and board member of KBC Securities. He co-founded Bolero Crowdfunding in September 2014. He had joined KBC Bank & Verzekering earlier, working as a management consultant from 1999 to 2001, heading organisation for Central and Eastern Europe from 2003 to 2006, and serving as CEO of KBC Consumer Finance from 2007 to 2012. Before that he was EHS manager at GE Capital/TIP, EHS audit manager for Europe, Africa and the Middle East at Levi Strauss & Co., and a management consultant at Arthur D. Little from 1993.
He holds an MBA from IMD and master's degrees from KU Leuven in financial economics, environmental health engineering, and civil engineering and chemistry.
Career history
In the news
- Would you hand a ten-year-old a real share of Disney? A Belgian senator got his first share at ten, a stake in the Ghent tram, and cheerfully rode “his” tram for the rest of his life. A few thoughts on why the age you buy your first stock might matter more than which stock it is. Curious where you land: too young, or exactly right? #financialliteracy #investing
- What a week! Young Early Starters - YES and Oscar’s first trip to New York City! Before heading to the City That Never Sleeps, I had my annual injection of art, culture, politics, books and business at the Financial Times Weekend Festival, one of my favorite events (a reflection on that in a next post). Then it was down to business with my colleague Monica Marpole-Bird and YES’s Oscar. They presented at Finovate Fall 2026 to a large audience in a very large hall, and we ran a booth too. After a string of positive events in
- What does Dolly Parton have to do with behavioural investing? More than I expected, and it starts with the way I completely misjudged her. Young Early Starters - YES #financialliteracy #edtech #fintech #behavioralfinance
- Very much looking forward to heading to the USA with Oscar and Monica Marpole-Bird. It will be Oscar’s first time crossing the ocean, but definitely not his last: we are attending and pitching at FinovateFall in New York this September. YES – Young Early Starters - YES Starters – will launch later this year in Germany, then expand to other European countries, and the USA, in the course of next year. Excited to take the next step — and to see what Oscar makes of New York! #FinovateFall #edtech #fintech
- Despite several visits to Copenhagen over the years, I had never once made it into Tivoli. Until two weeks ago. I went looking for inspiration, or maybe something else. My new piece: 👇 Young Early Starters - YES
- Last weekend in Ostend, a trapeze artist swung a little girl out over the whole crowd. Not the same as investing, I know, but it triggered something. What those performers radiate is earned confidence, years of practice made to look easy. And that turns out to be the real story of the gender gap: women may actually be quietly the better investors, they’re just less often shown that the skill is theirs. My new piece: 👇 #financialliteracy #investing #education #gendergap
- When I started investing, few people talked about it. Last week a children’s bookshop owner asked me about stocks. Over nearly forty years I’ve watched investing go from a niche for the older and better-off to something an eighteen-year-old and a children bookshop owner both do. My summer piece on that shift.👇 Young Early Starters - YES
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