Overview
Florian Vallaeys is Managing Director of GESPODO LAB, a role he took up in September 2025, and is based in Brussels. He states expertise in negotiation, contract negotiation, business-to-business work, international business and strategic partnerships.
He co-founded Ugani Prosthetics in February 2021, has been a director of Prothea Kenya since March 2023 and vice chairman of the Ugani Foundation since December 2023.
Vallaeys spent several years at Turbulent Hydro, joining as an engineering intern in August 2015 and going on to work as project and sales manager, as general manager for Chile from February 2017 to February 2021, and as business development manager until January 2022. Between 2018 and 2019 he was also part of the operations team and the board of advisors of Leuven Value Network. Earlier, from 2011 to 2014, he held a student job at Chardonnay Meerdael.
He studied industrial engineering in electromechanics at KU Leuven, taking a bachelor's degree and a master's degree, with a student exchange at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and completed a postgraduate programme in innovative entrepreneurship at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2016.
Career history
In the news
- What a night! Thank you to the Fonds Karim Slaoui, Aurore Balsan and Moncef Slaoui for believing in us, and to Brussels' Kitchen x RACINES for a charity dinner that felt nothing like a gala 😉 This Fund does something almost nobody else does: it backs hardware for disability. Without this loan, our CNC milling machine for P&O would still be a drawing on a screen. The Fund is still €20,000 short of its goal for the next generation of entrepreneurs. Every euro invested in disability returns nine to society. I've rarely seen a better
- Karim used to say: "When things get tough, you gather people and open the best bottles!" Yesterday evening, we celebrated! Building bridges in our ecosystem means creating value for every stakeholder. Real innovation always puts human impact at its core. It means also empowering purpose-driven entrepreneurs to shape a more accessible future! Yesterday evening, I had the pleasure of attending the exceptional dinner hosted by the Fonds Karim Slaoui and deliciously powered by Brussels' Kitchen (Chloé Roose). Karim was a visionary serial
- A Royal State Visit, what an incredible experience! 🇧🇪 🇰🇿 I had the immense privilege of joining the Belgian delegation of entrepreneurs, rectors, ministers and journalists accompanying Their Majesties King Philippe and Queen Mathilde on their State Visit to Kazakhstan, hosted by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. For Ugani and GESPODO LAB this mission marks a real milestone: we signed a 3-year collaboration agreement with our Kazakh partner MediCare. 🤝 Thank you Almas Rassylkhan and Enes Coban for your trust.
- Restoring Hope. Rebuilding Lives. 💙 50 years after healing lives in Colombia, Fundación CIREC is launching #HumanitarianFund77 to provide essential rehabilitation, prostheses, and mobility devices to survivors of the earthquakes in Venezuela. 🤝 Led by: Juan Pablo Dos Santos - Amputee athlete & campaign ambassador Hospital Ortopédico Infantil & SVMFYR - Surgeries, care, and device production Ugani - Advanced 3D-printed prosthetic technology 🌱 Our Mission: CIREC has committed a seed fund of $277,000 USD with the goal of reaching $2
- Looking forward to sharing the complete 3D‑printed P&O workflow with the Egypt community on June 25. Join me through the link below: https://lnkd.in/eBgd-7yj
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