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Although he is known to be a no-nonsense business man with a stern belief in numbers and structures, now and then Luc surprisingly joined the idealist brotherhood. He did so on at least five occasions.
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He nurtured the birth of MediRing, a company providing communication services between health workers, and served for six years as a member of the board. MediRing now counts for about 2,000 active health-workers in the greater Flanders region.
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Early 2000, Luc also became a member of the Board of Beethoven Academie, a classical orchestra. Later on he founded and became chairman of the Board of Beethoven Academy structured as a "cvba met een sociaal oogmerk", a new kind of non-for-profit cultural legal structure in the Belgian landscape. Unfortunately the authorities were not ready yet for this new kind of thinking.
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Finally Luc was one of the early investors behind Starlab, the fundamental research lab that worked on BANG, the consilience of Bits, Atoms, Neurons and Genes. Starlab was based in Brussels, Boston, Berlin and Barcelona. The lab was once mentioned in one breath together with MIT and Parc but went bankrupt in 2001. The Starlab Barcelona site was subject of an MBO and still exists.
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Besides the above, he is a sponsor and believer of the Olivia Hendrickx Research Fund as well as Andromeda, a non-for-profit organisation helping children with difficulties to heal and develop themselves further on through psychotherapeutic horseriding. In 2007 he also became a general partner of Sporen, an organization with deep roots in aiming at helping children in troubled waters.
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