Organization Management Team

Karel Van den Berghe is the founder and CEO of Globis. Karel started his career in the packaging industry as Production Manager and built an entire ERP suite for the family owned company in the nineties. With 7 years of operational experience, he started Globis and managed to sell and deliver his product to numerous trading and manufacturing companies.

At the same time he started building a team with professional developers and consultants. Karel is known as a good people manager and motivator.

Peter joined Globis in June 2018 as COO and CFO to focus on the structural supervision and professionalisation of Globis
activities, as well as designing and implementing the business plan.
Peter started his career as account manager at Fortis. He then moved to Daikin as Senior Executive Strategic Planner and than
to ADP as Director Strategy & Pricing EMEA. Before joining Globis, Peter was CFO of Univar. Peter holds a Master in Business Economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and an Executive MBA from UAMS.

Karel Versavel is Solutions Architect with over 30 years of experience in ERP software solutions. In his role of IT-manager within in a textile manufacturing company (15 years), he was in charge of building an entire ERP system based on AS400 technology in-house.
After this, he joined the Globis team as senior consultant and has grown to senior solutions architect over the past years. In this role, he is involved in the solution design for customer projects and internal development and he is the link between the project department and development.

Andy Ost is a Senior Project Manager with 21 years of experience in software projects, functional analysis and team management. He joined Globis 2 years ago after having had various roles from consultant to customer service manager at the world leading WMS provider JDA (former RedPrairie). At Globis, he recently managed a large ERP project for Brepols.

Maarten Van Gysegem has 9 years of experience in different roles linked to Enterprise Business Software Solutions for SMEs. He acquired expertise in areas such as Manufacturing, Mass Customisation, Trade, Retail and Advanced Logistics.

He is capable of conducting impressive presentations for clients and organisations based on their needs and requirements. Managing partner relationships to increase business and identify new opportunities for company partnerships is also part of his job.

As a Sales Manager he is an influential team player, with leadership skills and the ability to drive a sales team to achieve targets. Maarten joined Globis in February 2015

Katia has joined Globis in 2017, after having spent more than 20 years in various global service management roles at Procter&Gamble and Hewlett-Packard. Through a variety of roles, she gained experience in (business) operations management, customer service and service excellence management. While implementing process/organisation optimisations and automation projects, she acquired profound expertise in service business processes.
As a quality assurance manager at Globis, she is responsible for QA, continuous improvement, customer service, efficiency and planning.
Katia holds a Master degree in Industrial Engineering (Electro-Mechanics).