Bart Van de Vel is an accomplished and driven business leader with extensive experience in advertising, digital transformation, and brand marketing for global markets. He is a techno-optimist, excited by technological advancements & he believes that the future holds great potential.
As a Global Product & Program Manager at Meta, he is gravitated towards making digital platforms more accessible in emerging markets. Bart has been with the company since 2013 and has one of the longest tenures; he has been around longer than 98% of his colleagues. After four years at the company’s international headquarters in Dublin, Bart moved to Dubai, where he served as Head of Beauty & Luxury, before transferring to Miami, where he currently resides.
Bart is currently enrolled as a doctoral student in Business Administration at the Paris School of Business. He holds a Master of Science degree in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from HEC Paris and has specialized in Organizational Leadership at Northwestern University. In addition, Bart obtained mini-MBAs in Marketing and Brand Management, completed the Neuroscience and Neuromarketing program at Copenhagen Business School, and is a certified foresight practitioner.
When not being glued to a mobile screen, Bart travels the world & the seven seas, learns about wine, is an Italo disco fanboy, and enjoys exploring underwater worlds as an advanced open water diver.
