Paul Cornet de Ways-Ruart represents controlling shareholders on the boards of a number of listed and unlisted companies. He is a director of Anheuser-Bush InBev and Floridienne SA. as well as a number of unlisted companies controlled by private-equity investors. Paul is also a member of the Orientation Council of Euronext Brussels.
Paul is Belgian and was born in 1968. He is a Commercial Engineer from the Catholic University of Louvain (1991) and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago (1996) with concentration in Finance. Paul also attended a Master in Brewing Science post-graduate program at the Catholic University of Louvain (2012). He spent 5 years at Yahoo! and was the Director of Strategy for Orange UK (a mobile operator) and spent seven years with McKinsey&Company in London and Palo Alto (CA). He exercises the current Sibelco Board mandate as permanent representative of Ways-Ruart SA.