Curriculum Vitae

Nationality: Belgian Date of Birth: March 17, 1958 Place of Birth: Ostend,

Contact Data: Philippe Geril Torhoutsesteenweg 162, Box 4 B-8400 Ostend Belgium Home Tel: +.32.59.800.804 Office Tel: +32.9.264.55.09 Office Fax: +32.9.264.58.25 Emails: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Military Service 1981: School of Infantry, Arlon and GHQ,

Education: Secondary School: 1963-1975: At the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwecollege, Vindictivelaan 9, B-8400 Ostend, Modern Humanities, Economics and Languages Higher Education: 1979-1980: At the Institut Libre Marie Haps, Aarlenstraat 44, B-1040 Brussels. for interpreters and translators. Degrees obtained: in 1979 Translator English Russian in 1980 Interpreter English Russian. Other Courses: 1983: Costing: Vormingsinstituut, 1984: Management in SME’s: Vormingsinstituut Kortrijk 1985: BASIC Programming 1: Sint-Lutgardis Instituut, Ostend 1986: BASIC Programming 2: Sint-Lutgardis Instituut, Ostend 1986: DBASE Programming: Sint-Lutgardis Instituut, Ostend 1986: Italian 1: Vormingsinstituut, Ostend 1987: Desktop Publishing, Kluwer, 1987: Italian 2: Vormingsinstituut , Ostend 1988: Italian 3: Vormingsinstituut, Ostend 1989-1990: Post Graduate Course Business Management, VLEKHO, Brussels 1991: Spanish 1: Vormingsinstituut, Ostend 1992: Spanish 2: Vormingsinstituut, Ostend 1993: Spanish 3: Vormingsinstituut, Ostend 1994: Japanese 1: Vormingsinstituut, Kortrijk 1995: Time Management, CareerTrack International, Rotterdam

1 Working Experience:

Past and Present Employment: 1982-1982: Meatmarket NV, , Belgium Sales Manager Tasks: • Follow-up of finances for Belgium and France • Managing the sales team in Belgium and France • Managing customer relations • Creating ads and ad campaigns • Running company exhibits at international fairs in Belgium

1982-1985: Flandria-Superia NV, , Belgium Assistant Sales Manager Tasks: • Budgeting and financing • Follow-up of finances for Belgium and the UK • Managing the sales team in Belgium • Managing customer relations • Creating ads and ad campaigns, setting up a subsidiary in the UK • Logo Design and Product Design • Organizing and running company exhibits at international fairs outside Belgium

1985-1985: Sportservice NV, , Belgium Sales Director Tasks: • Budgeting and financing • Managing customer relations • Running company exhibits at international fairs in Belgium

1985-1994: Society for Computer Simulation, /San Diego/Erlangen, Belgium/USA/Germany. – Ghent University European Branch Manager/Administrator Tasks: • Budgeting and financing • Setting up the European Subsidiary; SCS Europe Bvba and its sister company, The SCS European Publishing House. • Managing membership relations and member follow-up • Database Management • Creating the corporate website • Logo Design and Add Campaigns • Creating and editing an international Newsletter (Simulation News Europe from 1985-1989) and several electronic newsletters. • Creating and running several annual international conferences on Computer Simulation in Europe and the Middle East. (ESM, ESS, EUROMEDIA, ECEC, GAMEON, MESM, FOODSIM) • Editing the Conference Proceedings

2 • Linking up to other international societies for joint conference organization (UKSC, IBPSA, ASIM, FRANCOSIM, DBSS) • Third-Party conference organization (IBPSA, SISO, WATERMATEX, PBM, AIDIC BIO) • Setting up international academic-industrial projects (SiE, MOSAIC)

1994-2002: SCS Europe Bvba, Ghent/Erlangen, Belgium/Germany / Ghent University Director/Assistant Administrator General Tasks: • Same as above 2002-now: European Simulation Society –EUROSIS /ETI Bvba, Ghent, Belgium Secretary General /Director Tasks: • Budgeting and financing • Setting up the financial arm; ETI Bvba. • Database Management • Creating the corporate website and several electronic newsletters. • Logo Design and Add Campaigns • Creating and running several annual international conferences on Computer Simulation in Europe, The Middle East, North Africa and North America (FUBUTEC, ECEC, EUROMEDIA, ESM, GAMEON, ISC, FOODSIM, ASTEC, NASTEC, GAMEON NA, GAMEON ASIA) • Editing the Conference Proceedings • Editing some editions of the Scientific Journals from Inderscience • Linking up to other international societies for joint conference organization (SISO, FRANCOSIM, IFORS) • Third-Party conference organization (SISO, WATERMATEX, PBM) • Setting up international academic-industrial projects (CABAS- Demo)

IT Skills: Windows Applications (Word, Access, Excel, Powerpoint, Frontpage) Dbase, Adobe Acrobat HTML UNIX Website Development using Frontpage, Drupal and PHP.

Language Skills: Fluent: Dutch, English, French, German, Russian Working Knowledge: Italian, Spanish Notions: Japanese

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