After 13 years at STE in various senior marketing and application positions (including VP Marketing) Chris Van Assche left Scitex in 1996 to join Barco in Belgium.
A couple of years later, leaving the graphic-arts market, Chris redirected his interest towards the banking world, in the field of strategic IT consulting. With a technology partner and venture capital, he created a company that developed concepts and provided support to banking software applications. Two years later, they sold the consulting business to an
Amsterdam based consulting company.
Chris Van Assche has recently created his own management company (Creative & Valuable Advantages) in Meise, Belgium, providing services to several international banks in the Benelux.