Willem Broekaert

Willem is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of V-Bio Ventures, a venture capital fund that supports innovative young companies in life sciences. Prior to V-Bio Ventures, Willem was founding CEO of the nutrition company Fugeia, which was acquired by Cargill in 2013, and was Vice President R&D of the entrepreneurial agri-biotechnology company CropDesign, which was acquired by BASF in 2006. Prior to these roles, Willem was full-time professor at the Faculty of BioScience Engineering of the University of Leuven, Belgium. He holds a MSc and PhD in BioScience Engineering from the University of Leuven, and a Master’s degree in agricultural economics from the business school ESSEC in Paris, France.