Experts

Noel de Munck, founder of NdM Hospitality and Food & Beverage Management Consultancy, is a dynamic and passionate leader with international experience in the luxury hotel industry. He offers 360° expertise in all areas of Food & Beverage. With a successful career in the corporate and hospitality fields, his progression has been the result of quality expectations and results, as well as building enthusiastic, productive, committed and successful teams.

His strengths include hospitality processes and systems, multi-unit and brand management, creation of standard operating procedures to ensure consistent quality and delivery, development and design of food and beverage concepts, and project management.

He supports hotel owners to help them achieve their revenue, product and service goals.

Laurent Goldenberg has been involved in the hotel industry for over 20 years. After two and a half years’ experience as assistant to the Vice-President of a hotel group, he decided to start his own business and opened his first apartment-hotel in 2007 (the Suite Home Abbaye in the heart of the Louise district) and then opened two others the following year (Suite Home Louise and Suite Home Stéphanie), representing 46 suites and apartments in Brussels.

He still manages these three establishments today and since 2019 has also been the manager of the apartment-hotel Georges-Henri in Brussels (29 suites and apartments).

Laurent is also a hotel/restaurant consultant for investors wanting to launch an apartment-hotel or restaurant and needing advice on the development, operation or management of their establishment.

With more than 25 years’ experience, several restaurant launches and numerous culinary trips under her belt, Tchop knows all about operations.

Coaching, brainstorming, surface negotiation, investment, networking: Tchop is there for the restaurateur at every step.

She co-founded Eureka, an agency that brings together several experts in the restaurant sector where they make their knowledge and experience available to project leaders.

The three pillars of Eureka are support at each stage of the project, the calm launching of the project and measured risk-taking with the introduction of indicators, post-launch follow-up and expert feedback.

Restaurant consultant and Michelin-starred chef Marta Cebrian Lopez is a compulsive traveller, protector of sustainable cuisine and seasonal products and is CEO of MCL Food Consulting.

She provides support in defining catering concepts, designing and equipping kitchens, and setting up an organised and efficient kitchen.

MCL Food Consulting advises restaurateurs to create kitchens and restaurants with emotion, focusing on humans and their ability to learn.

HorecAssist is a consulting company in the hotel and restaurant sector in Brussels, founded in 2017 by Olivier Tombeur. With more than 20 years of experience in the hotel and restaurant business in Belgium, Monaco, Cannes, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Luxembourg, Olivier Tombeur makes all his experience and expertise available to hoteliers and restaurateurs.

HorecAssist helps companies increase their business and online presence by developing business and digital marketing strategies to increase their sales and profits.

Areas of expertise: business strategy, social media, digital marketing, revenue management, recruitment.

Julien Vankriekinge is the founder of Your Peak Revenue. He has accumulated over 20 years of experience in the hospitality industry and worked in several prestigious hotels. He now offers his expertise to hotel owners.

Your Peak Revenue assists and advises hoteliers in identifying their growth opportunities and developing a strategic plan that helps them achieve their goals and maximise their profits.

The company helps hotels achieve digital transformation, improve performance and position themselves through price optimisation, online distribution and performance analysis.

Fabian Darbon has more than 20 years of professional experience in the Food & Beverage industry in Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States.

He helps companies in several areas: concept definition, transformation programmes, economic adjustments, operational management and more.

FD Consulting & Services assists restaurant owners, hotel industry professionals, entrepreneurs and public stakeholders who have a need related to the restaurant industry. As part of an outsourced activity development in the F&B sector, FD Consulting & Services will identify the most relevant partners and can undertake a rapprochement with external operators, particularly brand names.