Christophe Van Huele

Location

ghent

Region

flanders

Role

co-founder, cto

Company

solvice

linkedin.com

Expertise

combinatorial-optimization, operations-research, mathematical-programming, api-design, decision-intelligence

TLDR

Christophe Van Huele is co-founder and CTO of Solvice, the Ghent-based optimization API company Quickbase acquired in April 2026.

Overview

Van Huele holds a Master in Engineering: Operations Research (2007-2009) and a PhD from Ghent University, with doctoral work on mathematical modelling for healthcare applications focused on optimising physician and surgery scheduling. He built Solvice's first solution for a large university hospital in Leuven, then co-founded the company with Kenny Helsens in 2015 to package combinatorial optimisation and machine learning behind developer-friendly APIs.

As CTO he leads the technical direction of OnRoute (constraint-based vehicle routing), OnShift (workforce scheduling), OnPick (warehouse picking), and OnStock (inventory optimisation). Following Quickbase's acquisition of Solvice NV on 2 April 2026, Van Huele joined Quickbase to embed OnRoute into FastField Pro and OnShift into Quickbase Business and Enterprise during the second half of 2026.

Connections

Co-founder of Solvice with Kenny Helsens. Works alongside CEO Bert Van Wassenhove. Based in Ghent.

Sources

https://www.solvice.io/author/christophe-van-huele
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophevh/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=g95FkwkAAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.quickbase.com/news/press-releases/quickbase-acquires-solvice