Urbain Vandeurzen

Urbain Vandeurzen is a serial entrepreneur and co-chairs miDiagnostics’ Board. He is also the founder and chairman of Smile Invest, a private equity fund focused on supporting innovative growth companies. He is a chairman or member of the board of a number of technology, industrial and financial services companies.

Previously he was co-founder, Chairman and CEO of LMS, The Engineering Innovation Partner of the Global Top 500 manufacturing companies, which was successfully sold to Siemens in 2012. He was board member at Gimv for 12 years, 5 years of which he served as Chairman. He is honorary chairman of VOKA, the Flemish Employers Organization and Chamber of Commerce.

Since 2012, he has been a member of the board of directors at KU Leuven and became chairman of the KULeuven “Opening the Future” fundraising campaign. He is also chairman of the Strategic Research Center of the Manufacturing Industries, Flanders Make, as well as the Strategic Research Institute on Neurodegenerative Disease, Mission Lucidity.