The co-founder of ARCTIK and company's Senior Adviser, Ralph is a sixty-year-old serial entrepreneur with a long time vision of clean-technologies and sustainable energies. As the CEO of several companies he has worked on cutting edge technologies with a number of companies, including Osram, Philips, Soitec, APTech, Thales, AXT.

Ralph has been involved with the development of clean-tech projects at major universities and research centres such as the Fraunhofer Institute, CNRS, INSEM, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

In addition to speaking French, English, Spanish and Arabic, Ralph brings 40 years of experience in business development and management and international network.

Nicolas has an extensive experience in EU affairs: working for a publishing house(Helios Media), a Think Thank (CEPS) and several years in communication and PA agency before joining the European Commission (DG Energy) as a communication and press officer.

He holds an M.Phil. in Political Science, a Master of Arts in International Relations and a PhD in Information and Communication at Paris IV-Sorbonne (CELSA) and UCL.

His teachings at IHECS and ULB include a Jean Monnet module on EU communication strategies and Social Media applied to EU communication campaigns.

Nicolas has been working as an external consultant for ARCTIK since 2012 providing strategic advice on policies and PA.

Christophe Thévignot has a wealth of professional experience in the fields of EU policy, communications and knowledge management. 

Between 2010 and 2016, Christophe was responsible for coordinating the EU LIFE Programme external communications team. Other high-profile positions in Christophe’s career portfolio include: Head of communications within the Brussels-based Publicis Consultants firm; Brand Manager at Belgacom; four years as a consultant for the European Commission’s DG Communication; and two years with the French embassy in Brussels, as their European correspondent.

Christophe holds Master’s degree in Linguistics and in Marketing and Communication.

Quentin is Arctik creative director.

He is in charge of all visual production, including, print and web design, video production, digital media, Apps etc. He has also worked as computer graphist for The Royal Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels. He earned a Bachelor in computer graphics from the Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard in Namur (Belgium). Quentin speaks French and has a good command of English.

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Though I belong to the order Carnivora, my diet is over 99% bamboo (just love it). My wild cousins will occasionally eat wild tubers, or even meat... but I live on coffee, bamboo and the Internet.

At Arctik, I make sure the team stay fit and focus on their important tasks and that they always remember they are working to make our little planet fun, creative, and green!