Wilbert Ingels - COO

Wilbert Ingels has 16 years of experience in the IT and Telecoms sector. Before starting with Dacentec he was: CEO of CloudFounders, Sales Director at Netcom Solutions, Sales Director and European Director Business Development at Level3 Communications Inc., Vice President Sales, Senior Vice President Managed Hosting and Chief Operating Officer Europe at Dedigate/Terremark Inc.

Wilbert is an engineer by education and an expert in datacenter design and power management. He invented several new concepts regarding power management in datacenters. He has several patents on his name for datacenter power technology designs.

Sophie De Maesschalck - CFO

Sophie De Maesschalck co-founded Incubaid in 2009. She is responsible for the finance, HR and operational support of the Incubaid portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Incubaid, she was CFO at Qlayer, the datacenter and storage virtualization software company which was sold to Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) in 2009. Before that, she worked as consultant for Bain & Company, and as a design engineer at Proximus, the leading mobile operator in Belgium.

Sophie holds a PhD in applied sciences, electro-technical engineering, and an MSc degree in electro-technical engineering, option telecommunications from Ghent University.

William Groh - VP Datacenter Operations

William Groh has 15 years in the Systems / Network / Internet industry and suited for senior level engineering as well as people and project management. Groh specializes in host and network security, internet working and platform integration as well as supporting standards based scalable technology in the enterprise or data center environment.

His background includes Datacenter move, build out, operation and optimization, disaster recovery planning and testing and administrative task automation, Service provider IP network design using Cisco, Juniper, 3com and other equipment, network security design and assessment, IT process automation, Linux / Microsoft integration and VOIP.

He has a proven track record in engineering complex solutions. He has coordinated team efforts for design, implementation, and action recommendation on a wide range of systems.

Before William held managing positions at Telefonica USA where he was Datacenter architect, Diveo where he had built a network of datacenters around Latin America of 100,000 to 150,000 SF size, Performance Fibers, Lucent Technolgies and several other networking/datacenter companies.

Pieter De Clerck - Director Engineering

Pieter has more than 8 years experience in the IT and datacenter world. He started his career as System Engineer at Arcelor Mittal where he was responsible for IT infrastructure, office automation, backup and cross site integrations. After that he worked as a cloud solution engineer building a IAAS infrastructure for the SMB market.

Pieter is a hands on software architect and managed a team of software engineers for the last 4 years.

Piet Vandaele - VP Product Marketing

Piet has more than 10 years of experience in product innovation, product and portfolio management and product/solution marketing in areas as diverse as DSL technology, Ethernet and IP networking, IPTV, remote device management software and cloud computing. Piet has a strong focus on turning an innovative idea into a commercial success. Prior to joining Dacentec, Piet was working at Alcatel-Lucent, heading a team of product managers for the Motive remote device management product line.

Piet holds a MSc. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in applied sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and an MBA degree from the Vlerick Leuven-Ghent management school. Piet received the Alcatel Bell Award in 1997 and the IEEE Signal Processing Society 2002 Young Author Best Paper Award.