Who are we

Paul Cordier
During my studies of International Hospitality  & Tourism Management at the Glion Institute of Higher Education in Switzerland I had my first hotel experiences at Hotel Playa de la Luz in the South of Spain and at The Sheraton Skyline Hotel & Conference Center (part of Starwood Hotels & resorts) in London.
After various front of house experiences at the Sheraton Skyline I started my first sales experience in their Conference & Events Department that handled 350 rooms and 18 meeting rooms with a total of over 1500 m2 meeting space.

After 3 years of studying and 3 years working abroad it was time to return to my homebase and settle in Belgium. Here in 2000 I continued my sales experience at Mobistar (part of Orange, France Telecom) as a sales executive in their business to business department.
More than 2 years of ICT related sales experience later I happily accepted the invitation to return to my “hospitality” passion and started working as an Account Manager and Director at the Starwood Hotels Brussels Sales Office.
It was during this time that our family was challenged by the takeover of Telindus (founded in 1969 by my father, John Cordier), a great learning period for me.

In February 2007 I took on a new challenge as a Director of Sales & Marketing at The Dominican for the pre-opening and opening phase of this wonderful Brussels’ design hotel. We proudly opened the 10th hotel of Carlton Hotel Collection and first member of Design Hotels in November 2008. In this early period we were already nominated on the Conde Nast Hot List, as an Expedia Insiders’ select and as a CNBC Top 25 European Business Hotel.
During this period we also further developed our family investments through Cova-Invest nv and De Den nv, among which included the private equity investment in Crossroad Consulting founded in november 2007.
Today I am a member of the board of directors of Crossroad Consulting, a company operating at the crossroads of business and IT.

November 2009 was then finally the moment to pursue my longtime dream with the start-up of PureC.

Characteristics (what do others say):
Entrepreneur, very professional, excellent host, passion for travel, great market knowledge, hard worker, responsable and efficient working method, analytic, diplomatic, honest & loyal, result oriented, creative and a networker.