The team

Gaëtan Dartevelle

Gaetan is CEO, director and co-founder of Greenloop. Within Greenloop, Gaëtan develops and implements strategic guidance for improved environmental management within businesses. Engineer of management and master in Environmental Management, Gaëtan worked many years on economic development projects in several countries. Most recently, he has worked within Group One (responsible economy) where he was in charge of the research and innovation department. In between, he has acquired an extended knowledge in corporate strategy while being the assistant of Prof. Paul Verdin (ULB, KUL, INSEAD). With these many years field experiences, he has provided counselling to companies and public bodies in Belgium, East Europe and Tropical Africa.

Gauthier Chapelle

Gauthier Chapelle is scientific director and co-founder of Greenloop. As biologist, agricultural engineer & former scientific officer at the International Polar Foundation, he was heavily involved in Climate Change education, hence looking for radical & efficient ways of solutions. Following his participation at two seminars given by Janine Benyus, the founder of “Biomimicry”, he decided to create Greenloop, with the help of his friend Rapha√´l Stevens, eco-counsellor and carbon Balance specialist. Gauthier is also naturalist, trained as “Biologist at the Design Table”, associate member of the “Speaker Bureau” of the Biomimicry Institute, and a proud father of 2 boys.

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Jean Valayer 

Jean Valayer is director and co-founder of Greenloop, he pilots the innovation management aspects of Biomim-Greenloop. Graduated Engineer from Ecole Centrale Paris in 1961, Jean started his career in R & D, first at the University of Grenoble (Specialty doctorate) where he also taught soil mechanics, then in the oil industry in France. Since then, he has had various management and executive positions in Europe and in the US, in technology, business line and industrial property within the Chemical activity of the Exxon group. His experience includes the global management of the engine testing of Exxon Chemical and responsibilities in strategic licences and patent litigations, management of scientific information and value-marketing innovative products. Jean currently contributes to a biological system simulation with a post-doc from the MIT (USA).

Caroline Zaoui

Caroline is Greenloop’s R&D project leader. She holds a PhD in Microbiology from the Hanover Medical School. She first studied Biochemistry and Matter Sciences at the Claude Bernard University (Lyon). She then carried on research in Microbiology, first at Ken Stedman’s laboratory on viruses of the extremely thermophilic archaeon (Portland State University, USA), then at the Lariboisière Hospital (Paris) to investigate on antimicrobial resistance mechanisms. Whishing to pursue research on the biomedical field, she studied cell-cell communication mechanisms and biofilm formation in the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (Germany). Following these experiences, she focused her interest on global environmental challenges and joined the Greenloop team in 2009 to dedicate her efforts on the CO2SolStock project. Caroline now combines her research expertise with the biomimetic approach to generate innovations that are compatible with the functionning of the biosphere.  

Sebastiaan de Neubourg

Sebastiaan is strategic sustainability consultant at Greenloop. Sebastiaan holds both a master's degree in Business Management from the KU Leuven (BE) and an MSc in Sustainable Energy Systems from the University of Edinburgh, (UK). He has a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology (NL).