Career
Leysen started his career in 1976 with Arthur Andersen & Co, the international audit and consulting company. In 1981 he joined GB Inno BM, the largest Belgian retail group, where he was in charge of the Maxi division’s logistics and organisation.
In 1984, he founded Xylos, an information technology service provider. In 1989 he took over daily management of Ahlers, an Antwerp-based shipping company and made it a logistical and maritime service provider. In 1994, he brought Ahlers back into private ownership through a buy-out operation of Stinnes AG (Mülheim) and became Chairman of the Board.
He is President of the AXE-group (comprising Ahlers, Xylos and AXE Investments). Beside its activities in transportation and information technology, the AXE-group is also active as an investor via AXE Investments.
Leysen is a member of the board of Agfa-Gevaert and the Belgian Post Group.
He is Chairman of the Antwerp Management School ( formerly called UAMS). He is a founding member and was the first chairman of ADM (a cluster of about 100 IT related companies) and of the Belgian Enterprise Network for Social Cohesion (actually Business & Society).
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