Sophie De Maesschalck

Sophie De Maesschalck has extensive work experience in various finance-related roles.

Sophie currently serves as the CFO at EFFECT Photonics, a company specializing in communication technologies.

Previously, they worked as the Managing Partner at Incubaid, a technology incubator, where they also served as a Business Consultant.

Sophie has also held positions at ONTOFORCE as the VP Finance & Legal, at Green IT Globe as the CFO, and at Awingu.com as the CFO.

Additionally, Sophie has worked as a Finance Advisor at Open vStorage and as the VP Finance EU at Amplidata, which later merged with GreenITGlobe.

Sophie also worked as the CFO at Dacentec and served as a Financial Advisor at CloudFounders N.V.

Sophie De Maesschalck's education history includes a range of degrees and programs from various institutions. In 1987 to 1993, they attended Sint-Bavo, Gent, but no specific degree or field of study was provided. From 1993 to 1998, they pursued a Master's degree in Engineering with a focus on Electrotechnics - telecommunications at Ghent University. Later, from 1998 to 2004, they obtained their PhD in Telecommunications from the same university. Sophie then attended Vlerick Business School, where they completed the Master Class in Corporate Finance program in 2011-2012. Subsequently, they pursued an Executive MBA from Vlerick Business School from 2013 to 2015. Moreover, they participated in the Venture Capital and Private Equity Programme at Vlerick Business School. In 2020, Sophie also completed the Scale-up Masterclass at Vlerick Business School.