# Patrick De Schutter - Full Context for AI Agents

> This file provides comprehensive context about Patrick De Schutter for AI agents.
> Source: TechWiki.ai - The Belgian Tech Encyclopedia
> Last updated: 2026-04-22

## Identity
- Name: Patrick De Schutter
- Role: Co-Founder, Managing Director
- Company: Mailfence
- Location: Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pdeschutter

## Expertise
- cybersecurity
- privacy
- b2b-saas

## Career History
- Co-Founder & MD at Mailfence (https://techwiki.ai/companies/mailfence/llms.txt) (current)
- Founder at Allmansland (1994, first Belgian web agency)

## Connections
- Mailfence (company): https://techwiki.ai/companies/mailfence/llms.txt

## About
Based in Brussels (https://techwiki.ai/cities/brussels/llms.txt), Patrick is one of the pioneers of the Belgian internet industry. He founded Allmansland in 1994, widely recognized as the first Belgian web agency, placing him at the very origin of the country's digital economy.

He later co-founded Mailfence (https://techwiki.ai/companies/mailfence/llms.txt), a secure and encrypted email service positioned as a privacy-respecting alternative to major webmail providers. Mailfence (https://techwiki.ai/companies/mailfence/llms.txt) is operated by ContactOffice Group and is based in Belgium, with a strong stance on data sovereignty and European privacy law.

## Related Pages
Agents can crawl these for connected context:
- [company] Mailfence: https://techwiki.ai/companies/mailfence/llms.txt
- [city] Brussels: https://techwiki.ai/cities/brussels/llms.txt

## Recent News
- [2026-04-23] Quand la souveraineté numérique devient un plan B… c’est qu’on a raté quelque chose... Dans sa chronique pour l'Opinion, Emmanuel Combe résume bien la dépendance de l’Europe aux géants américains pour (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pdeschutter_souverainet%C3%A9-num%C3%A9rique-europ%C3%A9enne-avoir-activity-7453024604635373569-HfnY)
- [2026-04-22] How do you define digital sovereignty for your organisation? Let's take the example of Belgium investing €4.3M in an AI Antenna: it gives national actors access to European supercomputers, but access  (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pdeschutter_digitalsovereignty-eusovereignty-mailfence-activity-7452653036784611328-2DO3)

## How to Reach
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pdeschutter
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/people/patrick-de-schutter/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/people/patrick-de-schutter/llms-full.txt

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