LES CRÉATIVES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Founder and Honorary President )
*Note: Mr. Patrick Bosteels, who was our founder and honorary president has unfortunately passed away suddenly after fighting cancer for 2 years on 15th of October 2022. Prior to his death, he was always fully invested and involved in all of our project planning, writing, implementation, and reporting processes.
Patrick Bosteels was the president of the Les Créatives de Demain. He was an expert in development for startups, mentors, and investors around Europe. He focused his activities on startups and entrepreneurship ecosystem among Europe and ignited the local startup potential as well as creating more interaction with the global centers of innovation, startups and entrepreneurship, institutions, group organisations. Patrick Bosteels never tasted corporate life. A creator of many things starting in school, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gent, Belgium to become a photographer, screen printer and cineaste. Patrick spent his first professional years as a free-lancer working for video productions and television stations. Followed very soon by his first company and many followed. Getting great feedback on his talks on conferences exploring the full mobile eco-system that gave him the exposure and appreciation to get more and more into mentoring for VCs and start-ups. Patrick has a great relationship with Europe and MEA countries. He was a coach and consultant in Stage-Co which works for the biggest companies and organisations in Europe and ran ‘Now Sprint Accelerator' for early-stage startups with the main focus on East Europe, Balkans, Africa and Central Asia.
Job Titles:
- Member / Project Manager )
Serra has a bachelor's degree in Political Science in Turkey and France. Since 2016, she has been involved in many non-governmental organizations and youth exchanges in France and Germany. Moreover, she has volunteered on the topics of cultural exchange and understanding between cultures mainly about migration. Currently, she is eager to follow her curiosity around the projects about creative cultural industries and sustainability in order to ensure living together in harmony by using art and by protecting the environment. Other than that, she is passionate about nature and nature sports, traveling to understand the other cultures better and she likes to follow art festivals including biennials and cinema. She is working as a project manager in Les Créatives de Demain in Nice and European Development Network to support the impact of people to the world.