About us
The Vuentica team consists of a number of experts with engineering, legal or business management background and experience from the oil and gas, wind power and public infrastructure. We have been designing and working with applications to manage risks and opportunities on major projects and businesses for many years. We understand the need for applications that can handle big data and are easy to use. We’re a small team of experienced and dedicated professionals with extensive experience in structuring and streamlining tools and processes for efficient decision making, both in risk management and early contractor involvement.
Meet the team
Kenneth Willems
Kenneth Willems is founder and managing director of Vuentica. He is active in risk and project management and governance since 2005, with experience acquired in managerial functions across Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.
From 2015 till 2019, he was Head of the Corporate Risk Management department in DEME Group, leading a team of professionals in developing risk management tools, implementing risk management across the organization and establishing strong internal controls.
Kenneth is a civil engineer (2005 - University of Ghent) and holds an MBA (2012 - Manchester Business School). Kenneth is also an active participant in international infrastructure and risk management initiativesand committees. He is currently chairman of a PIANC workgroup on Early Contractor Involvement, vice-chairman of the Belgian-Luxembourg chapter of the Institute of Risk Management and he is an Expert at NBN standardization commissions on IS031000.
His particular interest lies in the design and implementation of risk management systems in organizations operating in project-based sectors as well as facilitating early contractor involvement at large infrastructure projects.
Céline Hanauer
Céline Hanauer is founder and managing director of Vuentica. She obtained her Master degree of International Law in 1999 (University of Strasbourg). She has acquired several years of international experience, especially in the field of academic research and training.
Civil servant for the French government since 2004, Céline further developed her interest in intellectual property by completing a postgraduate law degree in industrial property rights and new technologies in 2018 (University of Lille).
In recent years, Céline gained experience in sales of innovative IT-products and managing start-ups and non-for-profit associations, focusing on the statutory, administrative and contractual aspects.
Barbara De Busschere
Barbara de Busschere started working for Vuentica end 2020.
She holds a bachelor degree in tourism (Hogeschool West-Flandres, Kortrijk) and has many years of strong experience in administrative support for multinational and medium companies.
Multilingual and multitask, she is definitively oriented to the entrepreneurship.
Barbara gives to the team an overall administrative support such as organizational charts, translations, HR advice and administrative support.
THE V-ROOMS DEVELOPMENT TEAM
Daughter company of Vuentica
LEON HEYTENS
3D Creator
Leon is studying Digital Arts and Entertainment at Howest.
While he is still studying to finish his degree, he is creating several virtual onboarding and conference spaces where companies and teams can get together remotely and host meetings in VR.
As a bachelor student in Secundair Education Math and Arts, he has always been interested in both
technical as well as creative skills.
MARY SHAH
Marketing
Mary graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Business Management with a major in Marketing at the Artevelde University of Applied Sciences in Ghent.
This academic year, she will continue her studies to obtain a consecutive Master's degree in Communication Sciences.
In the meanwhile, she works as a job student at V-Rooms and is focusing on the marketing and communication activities of the company.
LOTTE PEETERS
Marketing
Lot is 23 and currently studying Visual Design in Ghent at LUCA School of Arts. She already holds a bachelor's degree in international journalism and a postgraduate in entrepreneurship.
She is interested in both drafting visual content as well as written content.
She started working as a job student for V-Rooms in 2022. She will be focusing on our marketing and communication activities.
SANDER SPAAS
Fullstack developer
Sander is 20 years old and working on becoming a fully-fledged Web&Mobile Developer.
This year he will be starting his third and final year of the bachelor in Electronics&ICT at Odisee.
Some of his favourite projects to work on during his studies are VR related and he’s always looking forward to work with modern technologies.