# Holger Willems - Full Context for AI Agents

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## Identity
- Name: Holger Willems
- Role: Co-Founder & CEO
- Company: Relu
- Location: Leuven, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holgerwillems

## Expertise
- Entrepreneurship
- Medical Devices
- Finance
- Marketing

## About
Holger Willems is co-founder and chief executive of relu, based in Leuven. He co-founded the company in October 2018 and has led it since. His stated areas of expertise are entrepreneurship, medical devices, finance and marketing.

He also worked as an energy engineer at Flexcity between October 2018 and July 2019, and was a teaching assistant at KU Leuven from September to December 2018. Earlier he spent August and September 2018 as a mechanical engineer at Materialise, worked as a research assistant at KU Leuven in August and September 2017, and was a 3D designer at Health House vzw in July and August 2016.

Willems studied at KU Leuven, taking a bachelor's degree in electrotechnical and mechanical engineering, a bachelor's degree in computer science, the honours programme in engineering science and a Master of Science in energy engineering. He also studied nanotechnology at Universidade de Aveiro, algorithmic information theory at Télécom Paris and biomedical imaging at ETH Zürich, and completed a postgraduate programme in innovation and entrepreneurship in engineering between September 2019 and June 2020. He attended secondary school at Sint-Albertuscollege Haasrode.

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## Related Pages
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- [company] Relu: https://techwiki.ai/companies/relu/llms.txt
- [person] Antoine Coppens: https://techwiki.ai/people/antoine-coppens/llms.txt
- [person] Adriaan Van Gerven: https://techwiki.ai/people/adriaan-van-gerven/llms.txt

## Recent News
- [2026-08-20] Back in the States! Visiting some dental labs around the Great Lakes. 🇺🇸 While on business trips, I always try to combine business with… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/holgerwillems_back-in-the-states-visiting-some-dental-activity-7496353585723719680-RD7a)
- [2026-08-04] DIA just put another $1.75M into Relu. This round bring our AI design to more U.S. dental labs. 🇺🇸 Proud of my co-founders Adriaan Van… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/holgerwillems_dental-innovation-alliance-doubles-down-on-activity-7490493674875854849-DkBZ)
- [2026-07-30] My visit to Glidewell Dental in California left me mesmerized. They have proven that AI and robotics amp up dental labs. 🤖🌴 Extra special… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/holgerwillems_his-teams-academic-research-project-became-activity-7488552499721715713-K2NX)
- [2026-07-20] The dental lab market grows at ~7% yoy. That's 2x every 10 years. 🔟 The dental CADCAM market grows at ~10% yoy. That's 2x every 7 years.… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/holgerwillems_the-dental-lab-market-grows-at-7-yoy-thats-activity-7484887378654904320-ABfZ)
- [2026-07-08] What does good look like? In the age of AI, as the cost of execution drops, intellectual work is shifting increasingly toward being smart… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/holgerwillems_what-does-good-look-like-in-the-age-of-activity-7480621039853641728-0Ld0)

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

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