Karl Gilis

Current

Owner at AGConsult
Executive teacher at UAMS

Past

Chief Information Officer at AdValvas
Owner at Webtelligence
Owner at Netsign

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Education

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Connections

350 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Karl Gilis’s Summary

I started AGConsult together with Els Aerts in 2001. We focus completely on web usability and information architecture.

Clients include: Vlerick, Telenet, Fortis, AXA, ABN-AMRO, Mobistar, AstraZeneca, Flemish government, Belgium government, Daikin, Wolters Kluwer, Nexans, Microsoft, Honeywell, Renault, Toyota, Bridgestone, Spector, Kipling, ...

Karl Gilis’s Specialties:

Information architecture & user research - Usability, conversion and user testing - Logfile analysis & webmetrics

Karl Gilis’s Experience

Owner

AGConsult

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

July 2001 — Present (8 years 7 months)

AGConsult is a Belgium based company of usability experts and information architects. We do research, teach seminars and give advice about usability and user-friendliness of web sites and web based soltutions to private companies and government agencies. I started this company with my business partner Els Aerts.
Executive teacher

UAMS

(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

2000 — Present (10 years )

Executive teacher at the University of Antwerp Management School, Master in e-business.
Chief Information Officer

AdValvas

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

April 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 4 months)

After the take-over of my companies Netsign and Webtelligence by AdValvas, one of Belgium's leading internet groups at the time, I became Chief Information Officer of all sites in the AdValvas Media Group. I started a project to build a common platform for all sites.
Owner

Webtelligence

(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

November 1998 — July 2001 (2 years 9 months)

Webtelligence was a small online publisher with a focus on entertainment. At the end we had 4 websites(about IT, gaming, music and movies) which held several positions in the top 10 of Belgium web sites at that time. Upto won several awards (Clickx site of the year, best movie site at the Dutch film awards, ...) and we reached about 75.000 people. Our newsletters were send to 80.000 subscibers. In 2000 I sold Webtelligence to AdValvas.
Owner

Netsign

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

January 1997 — July 2001 (4 years 7 months)

My first company. I started it as a web agency and we made web sites for clients such as Merck (pharmaceutical) and Casa (shopping chain). We also started a website called UptoByte with IT and internet news, downloads ... This site was very succesfull (second place in SIte of the Year for Clickx Magazine) and had about 20.000 subscribers.