Since 2011, Thierry Geerts headed Google in Belgium and Luxembourg, the company that has become much more than just a search engine. In 2024, he left Google. He graduated from VUB as a Solvay Business Engineer and soon became general manager of an industrial laundry company. With the arrival of the internet in the mid-1990s, he refocused on the media industry and held several management positions at VUM (now Mediahuis), publisher of newspapers such as De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad.
Thierry gives keynotes to various audiences in NL/FR/ENG and facilitates workshops at Board and C-level in companies, on digital transformation and (gen)AI.
He published two books: Digitalis (2018), on how to reinvent our world in the digital revolution, and Homo digitalis (2021), why digitalisation and AI are making us more human, on the impact of the digital revolution on people and society. In total, he has sold 50,000 copies and delivered more than 400 keynotes and workshops in 10 different countries.
