# Maarten Van Der Biest - Full Context for AI Agents

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> Last updated: 2026-07-13

## Identity
- Name: Maarten Van Der Biest
- Role: Managing Director
- Company: Orbid
- Location: Gent, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maartenvanderbiest

## Expertise
- IT Strategy
- Business Strategy
- Management
- P&L Management
- Change Management

## About
Maarten Van Der Biest is Managing Director of Orbid, a role he took up in October 2024, and since the same month has been Head of Digital Services at Ricoh Belgium. Between October 2024 and April 2025 he was also Managing Director of UpFront - A RICOH Company. He joined Orbid in May 2020 as Business Manager Software before moving into his current position there. Since March 2018 he has been a guest lecturer in strategic HRM at Arteveldehogeschool.

He spent over twelve years at Vlerick Business School, first as ICT Manager from December 2007 and then as Business Manager Online MBA from February 2017 to April 2020. Earlier he worked at Voka Oost-Vlaanderen from 2003 to 2007 as ICT manager and project coordinator, and was a consultant at xCA from 2001 to 2003. He served on the board of Alumni Hogeschool Gent and initiated and chaired ICT Alumni.

He holds an MBA from Vlerick Business School, a master's from Europese Hogeschool Brussel and a bachelor's in applied information technology from HOGENT. He is based in Gent.

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