The people

Dirk, a sociologist and economist by training, has been a major player in the Belgian printing industry for over 15 years. In 1997, Dirk, together with the Rochester Institute of Technology and ten of the leading printing companies in Belgium, founded the Flemish Innovation Center for Graphic Communication. Dirk is also in the middle of an 8 year term as President of the Board of KISP, Benelux’s largest printing school. Dirk served recently as general manager of a Belgian printing company.

Clare brings a unique blend of expertise to the company, with almost 20 years in the production mail industry at Pitney Bowes. She has worked in engineering, product management, strategic marketing and alliance development, along the whole value chain of production mail, both hardware and software. Clare has an electrical engineering degree, a master of business administration and holds 7 US patents, in a range of topics from real-time machine control to Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment

Hubert brings 30 years of engineering design and manufacturing experience to the MSP team. Before joining MSP, he was most recently General Manager of Kern (France), the world’s leading producer of top of the line mass mailing machinery. Hubert also co-founded the WF Euro-Envelopes (France).

Jan has spent the last 20 years working in the finance and banking industries. He has held senior management position at KBC (Belgium) and at Societe Generale.

Thierry, formerly chief engineer of Kern, is in charge of the day to day engineering at MSP’s plant in Colmar.

Scott brings a diversity of experience to Megaspirea as an entreprenuer, an educator, a marketer and as a political operative. He recently completed a year-long appointment as Visiting Professor of Business Communications at Western Connecticut State University and is a playwright.