Chris Cools

Chris Cools is currently Chief Executive Officer of Medivet.

Until the end of 2021, Chris was the CEO of Curaeos, a leading Dental Service Organisation. The group operated 200+ dental practices and 50+ labs in The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Germany and Italy and has JV’s in China and Thailand.

From 2014 until 2018 he was the CEO of Armonea, a leading provider of residential care for elderly people. Under his leadership, the group has expanded fast and managed 152 nursing homes in Belgium, Germany and Spain.

Until January 2014, he was a Business Unit President for Anheuser-Bush InBev (a multinational beverage and brewing company in global top 3 of FMCG and with a world wide share of almost 30 %, making it the largest brewer in the world).

Chris worked for AB InBev for over 18 years, first as a Commercial Strategy Director, and subsequently progressing to the position of General Manager and then Business Unit President of Southern Europe.

As a BU president he was a member of the European Management Team for more than 10 years and became heavily involved in all sales, marketing, supply chain operations as well as M&A activities. In his last position he held responsibility over the countries Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Cuba and Spain.

Throughout his career he gathered working experiences in different parts of the world and headed-up several business transformation and change management projects.