André is a Belgian national with 3 Engineering Masters (Mechanical from UCL and Automation and Chemistry from ULB) and an a MBA from IMD (Lausanne).
He worked 29 years at Solvay. Starting in production plants in Belgium and then in Germany as Head of the plant. From 1996, he was involved in an international career. First focused in Europe as Industrial Manager in SolVin , a JV beteen Solvay and BASF. Then, at world level as he was R&D, Technology and Manufacturing Director for the Vinyls business.
From 2008 to 2014, he was Engineering-Construction-Maintenance General Manager for the Group Solvay, having teams in 4 continents.
In 2014, he joined the Group Prayon as Industrial Director (Manufacturing, R&D, Engineering and Construction,…) and as Chairman or Board member of all the Prayon JV’s. He conducted a deep improvement project of the manufacturing performances.
In 2018, he decided to create his own consulting company and started the cooperation with SUSTINVEST (through A&P Syntony).