Curd Vandekerckhove (°1965) rejoined Bekaert on 1 October 2025.
Curd began his career at Bekaert as a Total Quality Management consultant in 1989. He spent 13 years in Asia, where he held multiple general management leadership roles. Returning to Europe in 2004, he led the Carding Solutions and Sawing Wire businesses. In 2012, he joined the Bekaert Group Executive as EVP for North and South-east Asia, later serving as EVP Global Operations and Chief Operations Officer. In 2019, he became Divisional CEO of Bridon-Bekaert Ropes Group. After leaving Bekaert in 2022, Curd rejoined the company in 2025 as CEO of Rubber Reinforcement.
Curd holds a Master of Science in Engineering and Master in Applied Economics, both from the Catholic University of Louvain.
