Prior to joining LSP, he was co-founder of VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and managing director of the institute for 17 years, particularly responsible for translating VIB’s inventions into a patent estate, partnerships with established companies and fast growing venture capital backed start-ups.
Rudy has been a key catalyst in the start and growth of bio-incubators, bio-accelerators and FlandersBio and was a co-founder of Oncode (Dutch research institute in oncology) and ASTP, the premier, pan-European association for science and technology transfer professionals in academia. He is/was director/chairman in many international biotech medtech, agbio, diagnostic and digital health enterprises and member/chairman of the advisory boards of several European non-profit foundations in life sciences.