Christophe Sabbe
TLDR
Christophe Sabbe is the co-founder and CEO of Atumind, the West-Flemish manufacturing software spin-out he started in 2025, and is also CEO of parent automation integrator Atree in Lichtervelde.
Overview
Christophe Sabbe leads Atree, a West-Flemish industrial automation integrator founded in 2011 that delivers MOM/MES software, WMS, PLC programming, SCADA, and electrical installations to food, agro-industrial, and discrete manufacturing customers. In July 2025 he co-founded Atumind with Thijs Maenhout as a software-focused spin-out of Atree, taking the production-execution, warehouse, and AI-driven planning patterns that Atree had been implementing on-site for over a decade and turning them into a modular cloud platform.
Before Atree, Sabbe worked at Actemium Belgium, the industrial maintenance and automation arm of VINCI Energies, which is where much of the production-floor experience that now sits inside Atumind originates. He completed an executive program at Antwerp Management School in 2019.
Career History
- Co-founder and CEO at Atumind (July 2025 to present)
- CEO at Atree (Lichtervelde industrial automation integrator)
- Engineer / project lead at Actemium Belgium
Education
- Executive program, Antwerp Management School (2019)
Notes
The Atree-to-Atumind move makes Sabbe a useful case study of the West-Flemish "integrator becomes product company" pattern: a regional automation integrator turning a decade of repeated implementation patterns into productised software for the same food and agro-industrial customer base.
Sources
- https://be.linkedin.com/in/christophe-sabbe-98281010
- https://www.foodtec.be/nieuws/atumind-lanceert-slimme-software-voor-maakbedrijven-die-willen-groeien-zonder-complexite/
- https://www.industrialautomation.be/en/nieuws/atumind-lanceert-slimme-software-voor-maakbedrijven-die-willen-groeien-zonder-complexiteit/
- https://www.northdata.com/Atree%20B%C2%B7V%C2%B7,%20Lichtervelde/KBO%200838.080.889
- https://rocketreach.co/christophe-sabbe-email_67877568