Rudy Dekeyser was until May 2012 the Managing Director of VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology He was until May 2012 head of the technology transfer team of the institute. He obtained a PhD in molecular biology at the University of Ghent. He was director of DevGen and CropDesign and is a director of the biotech companies Ablynx, Peakadilly, Actogenix, EMBLEM (technology transfer company of EMBL) and FlandersBio. He is also co-founder of ASTP (Association or European Science and Technology Professionals) and visiting professor innovation and management at the University of Ghent.