John J. Goossens

In 1968, he started his career at General Motors Overseas Corporation. In 1971, he left the United States and returned to Belgium as a management trainee at Texaco. In 1976, he was promoted to sales manager and then general manager. In 1989, John Goossens took the lead of the Antwerp subsidiary company of the French telecom group, Alcatel Bell.

In 1995, he succeeded Bessel Kok as the head of Belgacom. He thus became the first CEO representing the new S.A. Belgacom after its privatization. He prepared the company for the liberalization of the telecom market via the plans Turbo and BeST. In 2003 he was succeeded by Didier Bellens.

• Y.-W. DELZENNE & J. HOUYOUX, Le nouveau dictionnaire des Belges, 1998.
• Humbert DE MARNIX DE SAINTE-ALDEGONDE, État présent de la noblesse belge, Annuaire 2007, Brussel, 2007.

• John J. Goossens (in French)