This is not a business venture, but a cooperation between Ghent University and Louis-Philippe Kerkhove, Founder & CTO at Crunch Analytics.
Specifically, the project is attached to the faculty of economics and business administration. The faculty aims to maintain its relevance for business professionals and organizes courses to foster lifelong learning. The objective here is to get professionals to interact with recent trends and academic research, and in doing so foster innovation in business as well as academia.
Louis-Philippe affiliated with the faculty as a professor of operational research, and has been active in the business of retail analytics for over seven years. Besides his role at Crunch Analytics he has also taught data science courses at Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, and is a frequent guest lecturer at HoGent, Vives, Vlerick and Ghent University.