D-VECS' Founder
D-VECS was founded by Dirk Van Eester. Dirk is of Belgian (Flemish) nationality and has lived for over 20 years in Tokyo, together with his Japanese wife – whom he met in the USA – and their 2 sons.
Dirk graduated from the Computer Science department of the Faculteit Toegepaste Wetenschappen (Faculty of Applied Sciences) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Louvain) in Belgium. He holds a degree of Burgerlijk Ingenieur.
After his studies in Belgium, he obtained his Master of Science in Computer Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University in Blacksburg, VA, USA.
Following a short stint as system programmer at Bell Telephone Mfg.Co., a major Belgian supplier of telephone exchanges, he joined Agfa-Gevaert, the European market leader in Imaging Products.
With Agfa he moved to Tokyo where he held the position of Marketing Manager for Agfa’s Graphic Systems Division.
After leaving Agfa Japan, Dirk founded D-VECS and started offering Japanese business know-how to foreign companies, relying on both his commercial experience in Japan and on his Japanese language capabilities.
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