Bert Vermeiren 224 connections

Bert Vermeiren has twenty-five years experience in Human Resources of which half is in the ICT industry. He has acquired experience in supporting fast growth scenarios, mergers and acquisitions and restructuring in an international environment. His expertise includes change management, management assessment, skills management, training and education, executive recruitment, selection and assessment centers, compensation and benefits, as well as other HR areas.

In his early career Mr. Vermeiren was active in training in the employers organizations VKW and Agoria.

He worked for 6 years as an HR executive for the international development and production center of Philips Lighting and in a joint venture with Matsushita (Philips Matsushita Battery Corporation) and later joined IBM Belgium/Luxembourg as HR Director. He was a member of the Regional Management Team and helped IBM to transition from a country based to a business unit focused organization and from a hardware company to an ICT service provider.

Mr. Vermeiren also worked for Lernout & Hauspie NV as Worldwide VP Human Resources out of their headquarters in Belgium and in Boston. L&H was a leader in speech recognition and speech synthesis software. He contributed to the survival of the business when they entered into Chapter 11 and were finally taken over by Scansoft.

Thereafter Mr. Vermeiren joined Real Software, a European ICT software and services provider, as Group HR Director and a member of the management team.

Since 2005 he is active as a free lance consultant, mainly in executive search as a Partner at Hightech Partners and from time to time as a senior consultant in HR strategy and change management.

Mr. Vermeiren has a Masters Degree in Economy ( University of Antwerp ) and in Communication ( University of Louvain ).

He is fluent in Dutch, English and French and resides in Antwerp , Belgium .