Erik Luts - KBC Group Executive

Mr. Erik Luts has served as Member of the Executive Committee and Chief Innovation Officer at KBC GROEP N.V. since May 5, 2017. He holds a Masters Degree in Pedagogy from University of Leuven. Between 1985 and 1988, he held various positions, including with the University of Leuven, teaching at a technical college and working as an aftersales representative for an Apple dealer. He began his career with the KredietbankKBC group in 1988 as Computer Literacy SelfStudy Training Manager, and was promoted to Payments EBanking Product Manager in 1991. At that time he was also made a member of the Management Committee for Isabel . In 1996, he was appointed ICT Manager for the branch network, then General Manager, ICT Development, and in 2003, General Manager of the ICT Data Centre. From 2004 to 2006, he was a Member of theManagement Committee of Nova Ljubljanska banka, KBCs banking subsidiary in Slovenia, where he was responsible for ICT and preparing NLB for the introduction of the euro. He returned to Belgium in 2006 in the role of General Manager, Training, Education Recruitment. He was Senior General Manager, HR, Facility Services Financial Reporting at the Belgium Business Unit of the KBC group from 2008 to 2013. He became Senior General Manager, Direct Channels Support at that business unit in 2013 and was additionally appointed Chief Innovation Manager for the KBC group in 2016. since 2017.