OVT Team

I graduated as a veterinarian from Ghent University in 2006, after which I completed an internship and residency in small animal internal medicine. I remained affiliated with the university until 2012, after which I moved to Western Canada. There, I initially worked in primary care for several years, before making the switch back to emergency and secondary care. This combination has given me a strong affinity with the daily reality of practice and the challenges veterinarians face every day.

Teaching has always been a common thread throughout my career. I find it important to make complex subject matter clear and practical, so that colleagues can put it into practice immediately. In doing so, my focus lies not only on the ideal approach, but also on what is feasible and realistic in practice.
Based on this vision, I started Online Vet Training (OVT) in 2019. In the early years, I mainly built this myself, step by step — alongside my clinical work. In the meantime, OVT has grown into a fully-fledged platform, and I am particularly grateful for that. Today, I still combine my role as an instructor with that of manager within OVT. What makes the biggest difference for me is that I no longer do this alone. I now work with a strong and driven team, and it is precisely that collaboration and mutual support that I find incredibly valuable. At the same time, this also gives me more room to focus on clinical work again, something I still enjoy doing immensely. Together, we continue to build a platform that supports veterinarians with accessible, high-quality, and above all, practically applicable continuing education.
In addition, I still have the travel bug and love heading out to explore the world. I prefer doing this with a heavy backpack on my back, during multi-day hikes with my family. At home, I am kept company by two energetic, vocal Balinese dogs whom I adore — and who occasionally provide their “input” at perfect time during a recording or lesson.

I am a veterinarian with a particular passion for behavioral medicine. In my own practice, I guide both owners and animal professionals in better understanding behavior and, above all, making it practically applicable in their daily work. For me, that combination of theory and practice forms the core of good veterinary medicine.

Within Online Vet Training (OVT), I take on a broad and central role. I actively contribute to the development and rollout of new projects, lessons, and learning tracks, and am closely involved in the substantive development of our offerings. Additionally, I help think about the further growth and strategic direction of the platform, ensuring that we continue to respond to what veterinarians truly need in practice.

You will also occasionally hear me in our podcasts or encounter me as an instructor within certain programs. Lifelong learning is an absolute must for me within veterinary medicine, and that is precisely why my work at OVT aligns seamlessly with my daily practice. This interaction ensures that everything we develop is not only scientifically sound but also immediately applicable in the clinic.

I am originally from Belgium, but I moved to Canada in 2012. What started as a one-year work assignment grew into a lasting new chapter. Since then, I have lived and worked in Western Canada. I studied Industrial Engineering in Leuven and subsequently gained experience in project management, planning, and operations, where I was responsible for coordinating, structuring, and implementing complex projects.

At Online Vet Training (OVT), I hold the role of Learning Program Manager. In this position, I am responsible for the full coordination and implementation of our continuing education programs. I am the central point of contact for our instructors, ensure smooth collaboration, and monitor the quality and consistency of the content. Additionally, I guide the accreditation process with the Order and other bodies, and ensure that our courses meet the required quality and recognition criteria. My focus is on efficiently organizing and further optimizing our programs so that we can offer practice-oriented and high-quality training to veterinarians.

Besides my professional activities, my daily life largely revolves around my two young children. However, I do enjoy making time for a walk or hike, and we look forward to future ski trips as a family. We also love going camping and are already planning new trips.

In my free time, I enjoy being creative, spending time with friends, and happily immersing myself fully in projects that pique my interest, often for a little longer than originally planned. I also bring that curiosity and drive to figure things out and improve them to my work at OVT.

I support the platform from Vancouver, Canada, where I have lived and worked for nine years now. My background is diverse: from social work and management to web development. Although these domains may seem different at first glance, at the core, it is always about the same thing for me: helping people move forward.

Within the platform, I am responsible for general support. I answer emails, process memberships, and ensure that everything runs smoothly behind the scenes.

I do this, by the way, from a unique workplace: my own sailboat, where I live and work. So, chances are I will answer your question with a view of the water.

In 2012, I graduated as a veterinarian from Ghent University, specializing in small animals. Subsequently, I completed a rotating small animal internship there, where my interest in internal medicine and intensive care continued to grow.

Not long after, I left for the fantastic island of Grenada, where I worked at St. George’s University. In the small animal clinic, I worked as an admissions veterinarian, combining this with teaching and supervising students during their training. It was an incredibly valuable period, in which clinical work and teaching came together beautifully.

After this special experience, I returned to the Netherlands, where I worked in various primary care practices. Eventually, I ended up in the admissions department of an animal hospital, where I still work with great pleasure as an admissions veterinarian. The combination of acute care, clinical reasoning, and teamwork makes this work challenging and interesting for me every single day.

Within OVT, I am also responsible for social media, where I can combine my passion for veterinary medicine and education with creating accessible, practical content for veterinarians and veterinary assistants. I live in beautiful The Hague with my husband, our two children, and our stubborn Bengal cat Sjaak. In my free time, I enjoy being outdoors: I love traveling (to distant places) with my family, kitesurfing, and padel. I also love working in the vegetable garden or baking something delicious.

Hopefully, I’ll run into you somewhere within OVT — online or during one of our training sessions! 😊

Within Online Vet Training, I handle everything technical behind the platform. I build new functionality, solve technical problems, and make sure everything keeps running the way it should.

I’ve always been drawn to complex systems and technical challenges. Long before modern website builders existed, I was already experimenting with HTML in Word back in 2001, building websites simply because I wanted to understand how they worked. Over the years, that curiosity evolved into a deep understanding of web development and custom technical problem-solving. Today, I especially enjoy projects that require creative layouts, advanced functionality, and thoughtful solutions.

After graduating from Ghent University (Master of Law), I’ve worked as a lawyer until I moved in 2011 from Ghent to Vancouver with my wife and our two cats. There, I spent more than a decade working as a professional wedding photographer before eventually focusing full-time on web development through Chunky Squirrel.

Outside of work, I spend a lot of time programming and exploring mathematics simply because I enjoy it. I also love weight lifting and listening to 90’s Belgian house music while working. In the interior of British Columbia, I’m also building my own wood-frame house by hand, which probably says a lot about how much I enjoy understanding how things are built.