Alain Tytgadt is a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 businessman and a Director of the KBC Group.
Alain Tytgadt obtained a degree in art history

Art history

Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...

 and archaeology

Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...

 (majoring in musicology) from the University of Ghent and an MBA from Indiana University in Bloomington (Bloomington

Bloomington, Indiana

Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 80,405 at the 2010 census....

, USA). He is CEO of Cobeton, and Managing Director of Metalunion, in addition he is also Director of several other companies. Alain Tytgadt was appointed Director of Almanij

Almanij

Almanij, meaning Algemene Maatschappij voor Nijverheidskrediet was a Belgian holding active in financial services. It is since March 2005 part of the KBC Group.-Structure:The Almanij group consisted of four companies:...

in 1986 and became a member of its Management Committee in 1994 until 2005, when Almanij ceased to exist as a separate entitiy when it merged with KBC to form the KBC Group.