Jean-Pierre Butacide

Jean-Pierre Butacide was born in 1965, he holds a Master’s Degree in Economics and Social Sciences (management and IT) from the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur.

After serving as chairman of AIESEC Belgium for a year, he started his career at KPMG in auditing. Drawing on the experience acquired from working with different customers in construction, he joined the Hamon Group in 1993, where he occupied different positions in finance, such as financial manager of Hamon Thermal & Engineering, and was responsible for consolidation and management control of the group. He participated in the preparation of the listing of Hamon on the Brussels stock exchange and worked as Financial Manager of Hamon-Lummus, a joint venture between the Man Group and the ABB Lummus Group. In 2003, he joined CRH, an Irish group active in cement production, and became financial director of the subgroup Plakabeton. His main role was to integrate a booming family-owned company in an international group. In September 2005, he joined SPIE Belgium as Financial Director, where he supervises the accounts department, cashflow management, budget control and management, credit control, and the legal department.