Patrick Bosteels

Patrick Bosteels (Founder and Honorary President)

*Note: Mr. Patrick Bosteels, who was our founder and honorary president has unfortunately passed away suddenly after fighting cancer for 2 years on 15th of October 2022. Prior to his death, he was always fully invested and involved in all of our project planning, writing, implementation, and reporting processes.

 

Patrick Bosteels was the president of the Les Créatives de Demain. He was an expert in development for startups, mentors, and investors around Europe. He focused his activities on startups and entrepreneurship ecosystem among Europe and ignited the local startup potential as well as creating more interaction with the global centers of innovation, startups and entrepreneurship, institutions, group organisations. Patrick Bosteels never tasted corporate life. A creator of many things starting in school, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gent, Belgium to become a photographer, screen printer and cineaste. Patrick spent his first professional years as a free-lancer working for video productions and television stations. Followed very soon by his first company and many followed. Getting great feedback on his talks on conferences exploring the full mobile eco-system that gave him the exposure and appreciation to get more and more into mentoring for VCs and start-ups. Patrick has a great relationship with Europe and MEA countries. He was a coach and consultant in Stage-Co which works for the biggest companies and organisations in Europe and ran ‘Now Sprint Accelerator’ for early-stage startups with the main focus on East Europe, Balkans, Africa and Central Asia.