Rudy Dekeyser
Managing Director
The Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB)
Chairman NGI Valorisation Advisory Board
Dr Rudy Dekeyser is involved in the strategic management of an important patent portfolio, the negotiation of R&D and license collaborations with companies, the establishment of biotech start-up companies and the exploitation of bio-incubators.
He has been board member at Devgen, CropDesign and Ablynx nv, and is board member at ProNota nv, Actogenix nv, Solucel OY, CardioBiosciences sa, KBC PRIVAK, Bio-Incubator Leuven nv, EMBLEM (the EMBL tech transfer company) and FlandersBio (the Flemish biotech cluster). He is also co-founding board member of the European Association of European Science and Technology Transfer Professionals (ASTP), member of the international advisory board of AUTM, chairman of Valorisation Advisory Board of NGI and guest professor “innovation management” at the University of Ghent. Dr. Dekeyser obtained his PhD in biology at the University of Ghent.
