Our team
We are eager to make your acquaintance
![Sandrine de Wouters](https://cdn.speedsize.com/3da3c958-185c-4218-abc7-2b54e37efcf5/www.kadans.be/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Sandrine-de-Wouters-Senior-Asset-Manager-BE-270-180.jpg)
Sandrine de Wouters
Sandrine de Wouters joined Kadans as Senior Asset Manager in 2022 and is now leading the Belgian activities as Head of Belgium. Prior to joining Kadans, she has been working in the Real Estate and Banking industry for more than 15 years. Sandrine worked at ING Bank as Corporate Lending Advisor and at Cofinimmo (the foremost Belgian listed property company) where she gained extensive experience in Transaction & Asset management and Business development of (healthcare) real estate.
Working out of Belgium, Sandrine’s goal with her team is to bring innovation in state-of-the-art properties by linking strong ties with universities, tenants and stakeholders of science parks, to maintain, improve and expand the Belgian activities. Beyond real estate, joining Kadans gives tenants access to a large network, where knowledge-intensive organisations can meet, share, and even provide services one to the other; it is what we call “ecosystem services“. Sandrine takes care of her tenants to support their success in her role!
Sandrine holds a diploma in Economics (Master’s degree) from the University of Namur, Belgium.
For questions, you can reach her either by phone at +31 (0)411 625 625 or by e-mail to s.wouters@kadans.com
![Geert Akkermans](https://cdn.speedsize.com/3da3c958-185c-4218-abc7-2b54e37efcf5/www.kadans.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Geert-Akkermans-Development-Manager-BE-270x180-2024.png)
Geert Akkermans
Geert Akkermans joined Kadans Science Partner as Development Manager for Belgium, he is responsible for the development of new knowledge-intensive real estate projects. After his education as an Architect, Geert gained extensive experience at various companies in different roles in the building process. He started out as an Architect at PCp-arhitects, later he worked in contracting as a Project Director and also as Project Manager for the listed real estate company Befimmo.
Geert has a passion for building and a preference for complex projects.
Questions? Please contact us directly by phone: +31 (0)411 – 625 625 or e-mail: g.akkermans@kadans.com
![Kurt De Nil](https://cdn.speedsize.com/3da3c958-185c-4218-abc7-2b54e37efcf5/www.kadans.be/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Kurt-de-Nil-Commercial-Asset-Manager-BE-270x180-1.jpg)
Kurt De Nil
Kurt is Commercial Asset Manager for the Kadans’ Belgian portfolio. In his role, Kurt is responsible for accompanying tenants and prospects over their life cycle, from start up, scale up, to grown up, while offering innovative and tailor-made real estate solutions ready to them. Besides, Kurt focuses on building strong relationships with relevant stakeholders and selects the best way to organize ecosystem services around our tenants’ ever-changing needs.
Always available for a chat, don’t hesitate to contact Kurt who will smoothly guide you through or give you a piece of advice. You can reach out to him in Dutch, French, English, or even German!
Kurt joined Kadans Science Partner from Befimmo, where he had been for 6 years and gained a large expertise in asset management. He was responsible for managing a large asset portfolio located on the Core + Brussels Office market.
Kurt holds a master’s degree in journalism, from HUB Brussels.
Do you have any questions? Please contact us directly by phone: +31 (0)411-625 625 or e-mail: k.nil@kadans.com
![Thibaut Persin](https://cdn.speedsize.com/3da3c958-185c-4218-abc7-2b54e37efcf5/www.kadans.be/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/thibaut-persin-technical-property-manager-be-270x180-1.jpg)
Thibaut Persin
Thibaut joined Kadans Science Partner as a property manager. Before joining Kadans, he worked in the wind farms industry for more than 15 years. Thibaut worked at Air-Energy and Eneco Wind Belgium where he held several positions, starting from project engineer to operations and maintenance manager of wind farm parc, and finally project manager high voltage (design, purchase to operations).
Thibaut’s goal at Kadans is to ensure the maintenance and technical follow-up and upgrade of the Belgian properties are performed in a way keeping our assets at their utmost technical level.
In his role, Thibaut takes care of our tenants to support their success through stable and reliable technical operations!
Thibaut graduated as an engineer in electromechanics at ISI-ECAM, in Brussels, Belgium.
For questions, please don’t hesitate to reach us by phone at +31 (0)411 625 625 or by e-mail to t.persin@kadans.com
![Pierre Mennig](https://cdn.speedsize.com/3da3c958-185c-4218-abc7-2b54e37efcf5/www.kadans.be/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Pierre-Menning-Junior-community-manager-270x180-1.jpg)
Pierre Mennig
Pierre is working as Community Manager at the Watson & Crick Hill Parc in Mont-Saint-Guibert. He is the first point of contact and face for tenants, visitors, and suppliers.
Pierre’s goal is to make sure that the Belgian Community feel like home sweet home, while joining and experiencing our buildings. You can ask him everything!
Pierre has also a connecting role in building up program events and talking to (and supporting) attendees. And at the end of the day, he is contributing largely to putting the campus further on the map.
Pierre has a degree in Marketing, from the IESN in Namur, Belgium
Questions? Please contact us directly via phone +31 (0)411 – 625 625 or e-mail: p.mennig@kadans.com
![Claire Rouyre](https://cdn.speedsize.com/3da3c958-185c-4218-abc7-2b54e37efcf5/www.kadans.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Claire-Rouyre-Business-Assistant-Be-270x180-1.png)
Claire Rouyre
Claire is the Business Assistant for the Belgian Kadans Science Partner team.
Before she joined Kadans, she held various positions in a wide variety of fields, including, among others, the furniture and interior design sector, the automotive sector and, most recently, the pharmaceutical sector (micro immunotherapy) in a company whose head office is located at Palma de Majorca. She worked there for over 4 years as an international customer care.
On top of that, Claire got a bachelor’s degree in marketing. Her mother tongue is French but she also speaks German, Dutch, English and a little Spanish thanks to her studies.
Do you have any questions? Please contact her directly by phone +31 (0)411 – 625 625 or e-mail: c.rouyre@kadans.com
![Sandra Tibermont](https://cdn.speedsize.com/3da3c958-185c-4218-abc7-2b54e37efcf5/www.kadans.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Sandra-Tibermont-property-manager-270x180-1.png)
Sandra Tibermont
Sandra is Property Manager for Belgium.
Sandra joined Kadans Science Partner from the Real Estate industry where she, over the past 18 years, has gained a wide range of experience, and specializing in Property Management for the last 7 years.
Sandra is regarded as a property specialist which is great addition to the Kadans expertise, and she will work to offer reliable and sustainable solutions together with efficient property management services to support the success of our tenants’ daily and long term operations. Sandra is graduated in Facility Management (Haute Ecole de Liège) and Economics (Antwerp Management School)
Willing to share a cup of tea with Sandra to understand more about your facilities or just to generate new ideas for next year going forward? Sandra is there. You can reach her out in Dutch or French.
Do you have any questions? Please contact her directly by phone +31 (0)411 – 625 625 or e-mail: s.tibermont@kadans.com