Jean-Marc Verbist started on 1^st September as Human Capital Center Leader, Europe, based in Brussels. Jean-Marc will take over from Sanja Haas who will continue with The Conference Board as Council Director and Human Capital Advisory Board Chairwoman.  Jean-Marc is a HR professional with 20+ years experience in the banking, telecom and consulting sector.  At Bank Degroof Petercam, he held the position of CHRO, reporting to the CEO and was a member of the Group Management Board.  He led a team of 40+ people internationally and has extensive experience acting as a speaker and moderator. Previously in the Telecom sector at Proximus he was part of the Executives team, responsible for internal reorganisations and mergers before becoming Vice President Human Capital at Proximus leading a HR team of 150 HR employees. Jean-Marc started his career at Accenture as Senior Consultant.

Jean-Marc has extensive experience in HR Strategy, Board management (remuneration and nominations committees), Transformation & culture, Talent Management, HR Business Partnering, HR Operations, HR matters related to regulated sectors, External & internal Recruitment, Training & Development, Performance Management, Career Management, Leadership, Succession Management, Redeployment, Change Management, Culture, Competences Management, Training and Development, all HR impacts of Mergers and Acquisition/reorganizations and Senior Program/Process Management.

He has been quoted in several HR press publications such as L’Echo, Trends, HR Magazine, Metro, De Tijd, Le Soir to name a few.  He has received several awards in HR world like the best corporate HR team and best talent acquisition team.  He holds a Master degree in Business Administration at Solvay Business School, ULB university.