Hendrik Van Asbroeck

Hendrik is a seasoned senior executive with sound experience in finance, business development and venture capital. He started his career in 1996 as a financial professional at Air Products and demonstrated his polyvalent skills by becoming in 2000 a successful key account manager at Engie, one of the leading European Energy companies. After having negotiated, developed and sold several on-site energy production units he became head of business development for renewable energy projects.

In the early 2000’s he developed several wind and solar energy  projects  and created the at the time biggest biomass energy developer in Europe. Most of these projects were in joint ventures with other strategic investors and strategic partners. He served as a board member in several of these project companies and has also experience in managing changes in complex shareholding and M&A activities.

In 2010 Hendrik went back to head the sales organisation of an €8 B business unit, where he pivoted the existing organisation into the 21st century. The 600 people team was restructured, refocused, digitalised and upgraded to a high value sales organisation. Early  2014 he moved to Paris  to create Engie’s 200 M € corporate venture capital fund. He has shown that it is possible to link strategic value to financial performance and was the managing director of a fund which holds 25 investments spread over three continents. He also lead several acquisitions of mature start-ups and worked together with the acquired companies to integrate them as efficiently as possible.

Since January 2020 he is a partner at Astanor Ventures. Astanor is an impact investor in the food-, and agtech space which closed it’s first 275 mio € fund end 2020. Hendrik holds a master in Business Engineering, major corporate finance from the University of Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). He also holds several additional management certificates from amongst others the Vlerick Business School, Insead and London Business School.