Annick Van Overstraeten
CEO
- Lunch Garden Restaurants
Professional Information
Annick
Van Overstraeten
CEO
Lunch Garden Restaurants
Education, Honors & Awards
University of Leuven
Bachelors- Economics- University of Leuven,1987
1987
Personal Information
Belgium
Evere
Women on Board; Belgian Association of Entrepreneurs
Travel; Opera
More than 25 years
Annick van Overstraeten is the CEO of Lunch Garden Restaurants, 75 self service family restaurants in Belgium. She started her career as a commercial and marketing manager and has been in the restaurant business for 12 years. At the beginning of 2010, she became the CEO of 75 self service family style restaurants in Belgium known as lunch garden restaurants, privately held. She is well known for doing a major turnaround with these restaurants, making them successful, popular and highly profitable.
Annick is invited regularly to speaking engagements where she speaks about Business Development, Entrepreneurship, and Company Turnaround. She is member of the board of Bell 20 which is one of the top 20 companies in Belgium. Her vision for the future is to expand her restaurant beyond Belgium to other major cities in Europe and to become a Board member of several other large corporations. Her long term plan may include becoming a CEO of a large Commercial Organization. She speaks fluent English, French, Dutch and some German and Spanish.
Entrepreneur; Restaurant; Company Turnaround; Business Development; Business Strategy; Change Management; New Business Development; Food Industry; Restaurant Industry Management; Economics; Entrepreneurship