Bart Filius

Biography

  Since September 2017, Bart Filius is our Chief Operating Officer as well as our Chief Financial Officer. He joined Galapagos in December 2014 as CFO. Prior to that, Bart worked over 13 years at Sanofi, where he was CFO Sanofi Europe the last three years and was instrumental in transforming the Sanofi European organization to be well-positioned beyond the patent cliff. Earlier at Sanofi, Bart was CFO and Country Manager of Sanofi in the Netherlands. Before that, he was Vice President for Mergers & Acquisitions, during which time Bart led and completed the divestiture of various franchises. Prior to joining Sanofi, Bart was a strategy consultant at Arthur D. Little. Bart is a Dutch national and has an MBA degree from INSEAD and a bachelor’s degree in business from Nyenrode University.

Research Interest

 medicine