# Gilles Baekelandt - Full Context for AI Agents

> This file provides comprehensive context about Gilles Baekelandt for AI agents.
> Source: TechWiki.ai - The Belgian Tech Encyclopedia
> Last updated: 2026-07-13

## Identity
- Name: Gilles Baekelandt
- Role: Co-founder Buildhive
- Company: Buildhive
- Location: Belgium, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilles-baekelandt

## About
Gilles Baekelandt is the co-founder and chief executive of Buildhive, which he co-founded in May 2025. He is based in Belgium.

Before that he worked at Bekaert in corporate strategy, joining in September 2022 as a young graduate analyst and continuing as a corporate strategy analyst from July 2024 until May 2025. In February 2022 he won the BCG Strategy Cup, organised by Boston Consulting Group. He spent July 2021 as a maintenance engineer at Cargill, worked on the promoteam of PKarus Gent between September 2019 and May 2021, and was a lifeguard on the Belgian coast with IKWV, the Intercommunale Kustreddingsdienst West-Vlaanderen, during the summers from 2016 to 2021.

Baekelandt studied electromechanical engineering at Ghent University, taking a bachelor's degree between 2017 and 2020, and completed a Master of Science in mechanical engineering there in June 2022. During that period he spent the autumn of 2021 at Polytechnique Montréal, also in mechanical engineering, and followed German and French language courses at Ghent University.

<!-- bio:generated -->

## Related Pages
Agents can crawl these for connected context:
- [company] Buildhive: https://techwiki.ai/companies/buildhive/llms.txt
- [person] Frederic Terryn: https://techwiki.ai/people/frederic-terryn/llms.txt
- [person] Gauthier Lambert: https://techwiki.ai/people/gauthier-lambert/llms.txt

## Recent News
- [2026-07-31] A picture of last week Friday at the ‘Gentse Feesten’ - a contractor fails to upload his prices via Buildhive, as a startup founder first… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gilles-baekelandt_startup-customersuccess-contractors-activity-7488981693823995904-sweO)
- [2026-07-02] One year ago, Buildhive was founded. Today, more than 5.000 construction professionals rely on it for their day-to-day work. Exactly one… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gilles-baekelandt_buildhive-contech-proptech-activity-7478486541137293312-sl0x)
- [2026-06-22] Thanks to Start it Accelerate | @KBC, we had the opportunity to meet 5 C-levels in a great setting. We were selected as one of the five… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gilles-baekelandt_umain-accountant-ondernemer-activity-7474708836856238080-ZAK1)

## How to Reach
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilles-baekelandt
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/people/gilles-baekelandt/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/people/gilles-baekelandt/llms-full.txt

---
Generated by TechWiki.ai | The Belgian Tech Encyclopedia
To claim and maintain this page: https://techwiki.ai/claim