Sophie Manigart
Sophie Manigart holds a Civil Engineering and an MBA degree and is Doctor in Management (Ghent University). She is Partner at Vlerick Business School, where she holds the Gimv Private Equity Chair, and is Full Professor at Ghent University. She was Visiting Researcher at Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania, USA) and Guest Professor at London Business School and IE Business School (Madrid).
For more than two decades, Sophie Manigart has researched the financing strategies of entrepreneurial companies, including venture capital, private equity and business angel finance. Her research is published in three books and over 50 academic publications. It enabled her to develop original courses on entrepreneurial finance aimed at both entrepreneurs and investors.
She is or has been teaching on this subject at Vlerick Business School, London Business School, IE Business School (Madrid), ESMT (Berlin) and IMT Ghaziabad (India), next to short lectures in business schools around the world. She has published on entrepreneurial finance and venture capital in journals like Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management Studies and European Financial Management.
She advised numerous start-ups and worked or works actively with private equity and private debt funds. She is consulted as a topic expert by the European Parliament and the European Council, and Belgian, Dutch, and regional governments. Experiencing a gap in the financing of start-ups, she was one of the founders and board members of the first Belgian business angel network, BAN Vlaanderen. She is currently a board member of ParticipatieMaatschappij Vlaanderen (PMV) and EnergyVision, amongst others.
Partner, Vlerick Business School, Head of the department Accounting and Finance
Reep 1, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Full Professor, Ghent University, Department of Accounting and Finance
St.Pietersplein 7, 9000 Gent, Belgium
