John Goossens

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(businessman)
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BornJohny Léon Jacques Goossens
25 November 1944
Maasmechelen, Belgium
Died8 November 2002 (Age 57)
Francorchamps, Belgium
NationalityBelgian
Alma materUniversité catholique de Louvain, Columbia University
SpouseAnita Vaxelaire
RelativesFrançois Vaxelaire
Belgacom/CEO who attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1990s. Died at 57

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In office
1995 - 2002

John J., baron Goossens was a Belgian businessman. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Belgacom and chairman of the Royal Automobile Club of Belgium. He acceded to the Belgian hereditary nobility with the personal title of baron with a royal decree in 2000, confirmed after the completion of the procedures, in May 2002.

He attended the 1992, 1995 and 1998 Bilderberg meetings.

Education

After his secondary education at the Collège Saint Michel in Brussels, he obtained a licentiate, in trade - and financial sciences from the Louvain School of Management at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) in 1968. In 1971, he obtained a Master of Business Administration at the Columbia University in New York. He was a member of "Up with People".

Career

In 1968, he started his career at General Motors Overseas Corporation. In 1971, he left the United States and returned to Belgium as a management trainee at Texaco. In 1976, he was promoted to sales manager and then general manager. In 1989, John Goossens took the lead of the Antwerp subsidiary company of the French telecom group, Alcatel Bell.

In 1995, he succeeded Bessel Kok as the head of Belgacom. He thus became the first CEO representing the new S.A. Belgacom after its privatization. He prepared the company for the liberalization of the telecom market via the plans Turbo and BeST. In 2003 he was succeeded by Didier Bellens.


 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/199221 May 199224 May 1992France
Royal Club Evian
Evian-les-Bains
The 40th Bilderberg. It had 121 participants.
Bilderberg/19958 June 199511 June 1995Greece
Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel
Vouliagmeni
The 43rd Bilderberg. Held at the Burgenstock Hotel in Burgenstock, Switzerland.
Bilderberg/199814 May 199817 May 1998Scotland
Turnberry
The 46th Bilderberg meeting, held in Scotland, chaired by Peter Carrington
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