Yves Carels is an advisor at OTIV. Yves has also previously served as the commercial director at ALSTOM Belgium, sales director at Alstom Power, and CEO at Cycle-H. Prior to that, they were a project manager of a manufacturing plant for aircraft engines and a teaching and research assistant at Turbomachinery and Fluid Mechanics Department.
Yves Carels began their educational career with a humaniora, or liberal arts, degree in Latin and mathematics from Koninklijk Atheneum Dendermonde in Belgium. Yves then went on to earn a master's degree in electromechanical engineering from Ghent University. After working in the field for a few years, Carels decided to return to school to earn a postgraduate degree in fluid dynamics and turbomachinery from the Von Karman Institute in Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium. Finally, they completed an international executive program at INSEAD in Fontainbleau-Singapore.