Bio

Johan Verstraeten is a founding partner of Kumulus. After a career start in audit with KPMG, Johan has been active in corporate finance since 2001 when he joined Bank Degroof. He remained with Degroof Petercam for 17 years, becoming member of the board of Degroof Petercam Corporate Finance in 2016. Johan is mainly active on private M&A transactions such as the family buyout of the Verhelst Group, the sale of ACV International (to Groupe Atlantic), the sale of Connex Group (to Stanley Black & Decker), Utopia (to Kinepolis), Verellen (to Scandinavian Tobacco Group), P&V Luxembourg (to Baloise) and the merger of Corelio and Concentra into Mediahuis. He has a special focus on family-owned business. Johan holds a degree in Commercial Engineering from University of Leuven (KUL) and followed an additional year in Financial Management at the Vlerick School for Management, Ghent.