Philippe Vander Putten

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Philippe Vander Putten (b. 1959) is a Belgian businessman and CEO of Brussels Airlines.

1 Education
2 Career
3 References
4 Source

[edit] Education

Vander Putten earned a masters degree in Management at the IAG of the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He obtained an MBA at the University of South Carolina.

[edit] Career

In 1982 he started his career as assistant brand manager at Procter & Gamble Benelux. In 1984 he began working for L'Oréal Belgilux. From 1986 until 1998 he worked for Kraft and Kraft Jacobs Suchard, where he became vice-president for Europe. In 1994 he was elected Marketeer of the Year^[1]. On 1 September 1998, he became the CEO of Proximus, where he succeeded Jan Neels. He then became the CEO of Brussels Airlines, a merger of SN Brussels Airlines and Virgin Express.