Team - Management - Board
The LCL team consists of passionate employees with unparalleled expertise and practical experience. We all contribute to the same mission: guaranteeing your business continuity by focusing on creating reliable, available and connected data centers.
You know your company through and through, and we know ours. We are happy to put all our heads together to find the best solution for your company.
Our team is also your team, you can rely on that.
Would you like to get to know one of our colleagues? You can find us at our five different locations: LCL Brussels-North (head office), LCL Brussels-West, LCL Brussels-South, LCL Antwerp and LCL Wallonia One. Feel free to drop by for an informal chat. Or just for a coffee. We are always here for you!
From left to right, standing: Steve De Craene, Chief Finance Officer; Nicolas Coppée, Chief Information Officer; Abdellah Mahlous, Chief Operations Officer; Baudouin Corlùy, Chief Market Development Officer. Seated: Fabienne Frisson, Chief Human Resources Officer; Laurens van Reijen, Chief Executive Officer; Floris Smits, Chief Project Officer.
The Board of Directors of LCL plays an essential role in our organizational success and sustainability. The diverse and balanced composition of the Board reflects LCL's ambitions to incorporate a wide range of perspectives. The varied experiences and unique track records of each board member contribute to a broad knowledge platform for management, employees, and other stakeholders, including shareholders and the wider community.
LCL aims to remain a leader and, therefore, maintains a focus on economic and societal value as well as environmental impact. At LCL, a customer-centric strategy and sustainability go hand in hand.
Chairwoman
With over three decades of international experience at the C-level in the technology industry, Els Demeester has a remarkable track record as a strategic changemaker. Her passion and expertise span a wide range, from complex stakeholder management and business transformations to customer experience. Every challenge is an opportunity for her to roll up her sleeves, never losing sight of her integrity and strong personal ethical values.
Innovative and sustainable real estate is a well-known playing field for Ingrid Daerden. After more than 10 years of experience in real estate financing at ING she became Investor Relations Manager and subsequently Head of Treasury and Project Finance at Cofinimmo. She acquired knowledge of international telecommunications networks as CFO at OTN Systems. Currently she is CFO and executive director of Aedifica. Ingrid Daerden has extensive experience in corporate financing and M&A.
As the CEO of I4B (The Belgian Infrastructure Fund) and La Compagnie Financière des Infrastructures in Switzerland, André Autrand understands better than anyone that investments are levers to build a sustainable and vital economy. Autrand is deeply committed to all aspects of ESG – environmental, social, and governance criteria for a company's activities. Simultaneously, as an MBA alumnus of the prestigious ENA in Paris (Ecole Nationale d’Administration), he keeps a close eye on financial matters.
Danielle Devogelaer brings 20 years of experience in analysing the Belgian and European energy landscape to the table, with a particular expertise in electricity. She excels in topics such as energy infrastructure, market design, and industrial transition. As a member of several energy commissions, she contributed to reports on the Belgian long-term energy future and ideal energy mix. In 2021, Danielle was part of the delegation that successfully defended the Belgian CRM at the EU COMM (DG COMP, DG ENER). For 17 years, she was part of the Energy team at the Brussels based Federal Planning Bureau. In October 2021, she joined management consulting firm Sia Partners as Senior Advisor Energy & Utilities.
Chief Executive Officer and founder Laurens van Reijen has built LCL into the reference in Belgium in two decades. The five data centers in Belgium set a new standard for the entire sector. Providing the best possible service for each customer and playing a pioneering role in sustainability are two key pillars within LCL. To make not only LCL but the entire sector as energy efficient as possible and to build a healthy business with maximum positive impact on the environment, Van Reijen also holds important international positions in various sustainability initiatives.
Gaëlle Helsmoortel is the founder of Generative Booster, where she helps companies turn technological innovation – especially artificial intelligence – into tangible business value and sustainable growth. She brings to LCL the conviction that data centers must evolve into AI-ready ecosystems: trusted, sovereign, and resilient foundations for Belgium’s digital economy. Her strength lies in making complex technologies understandable and actionable, ensuring organisations can innovate with confidence.
With decades of experience in the European data center industry, mainly in Germany, Béla Waldhauser has witnessed the rapid rise (and limits) of major hubs such as Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London, Paris, and Dublin. A recognized leader in waste heat reuse and sustainability through initiatives like the CNDCP, he brings to LCL lessons on how to align growth with community and ecological responsibility. Waldhauser’s perspective and international network support Brussels’ ambition to become a sustainable, trusted European alternative.
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