Bert Verdonck has a 25+ year career in healthcare informatics and eHealth. He earned a PhD in signal and image processing from Telecom Paris and a MS in electro technical engineering of the university KU Leuven. He has a lifelong career at Philips which started in clinical software applications for radiology, cardiology and oncology. He extended experience into care solutions outside the hospital: home monitoring, regional eHealth solutions and population health management. His geographic focus has been global, including focus on North America, International markets as well as EMEA. He held positions in clinical science, advanced development, product management, marketing, sales, business transformation, software engineering and general management. Since 2020 he is an active contributor to the Gaia-X initiative, in multiple committees and working groups.