As founder and CEO since its establishment in early 2013, Hugues has successfully led the company’s advancement in all activities related to business ventures. Hugues brings more than twenty years of expertise as a CEO and serial entrepreneur in the Life Sciences and Biotechnology industries to the global team of experts at Univercells Group. Prior to founding Univercells, he was CEO of MaSTherCell (a leading CMO for cell therapy), Artelis (an innovator and leader in cell culture process optimization), and Kitozyme (a world leading manufacturer of vegetable chitosan). Hugues is a member of the Audit, Remco & Sustainability Committee of Univercells and an active member of several Boards and Committees of various Univercells affiliates. In addition to this, Hugues is also the Vice-President SME of BioWin, the Health Cluster of Wallonia, Belgium.
Hugues holds a master’s degree in law from UCL, Belgium, an Executive Master’s degree in business administration from Solvay Business School, Belgium, in tax management from ICHEC in Belgium, and a certification in innovation from MIT’s Sloan School of Management in the United States.
