User:Frederik Van Lierde/Frederik van lierde

Frederik Van Lierde was born in 1974, Aalst, Belgium. He started to sell at the age of 12, when his father had Open-Door days. He was selling the whole garden furniture stock.

His grandfather Eduard Van Lierde always told him that if he worked hard he could reach everything he wanted. Ever since, this thought is with me.

One day his father came home with an IBM PS2 computer. An argue between his parents (as in that time those home computers where very expensive) is still in his mind but IT virus had hit Frederik. The day tha his father sold the company, he decided to move his studies to IT.

After graduating, he started as an employee for an international company but very soon he found out that being an ‘employee’ was not his future or goal. Thanks to a very good friend, he received his first position as IT manager at the age of 24. Meanwhile he created a Point-of-Sales system and sold it all over Europe and was his first big success.

Many business challenges came, some stayed and some are gone. Every adventure was a success, not always money wise but he learned from every situation and used the experience in the next one.

Frederik is very proud of the partners he can work with. As it is not always easy to find the right people, but he guess I am a lucky man :). (Even from the ‘bad’ partners he learned something: ‘how not to do it’) You can only reach your goals when you have the right people to help you!

The journey isn’t finished, Frederik has still many ideas and challenges will come

Doing business with world - External links
(link Blog), His personal blog with Ideas, Thoughts amd much more.

(link Blue Oceaans group), Frederik's small Investment Company, managing the different projects/companies

(link SilverSands Associates), IT Consultancy company