Christoph Neut is the chief executive officer of AE, the Leuven, Belgium, IT and AI consultancy, which he has led since October 2022 after commercial and chief executive roles at Stefanini, Cegeka, and Sparkcentral (AE; Computable).
From call centers to Cegeka and Sparkcentral
He worked in the call center business at Stefanini, which bought National TechTeam in 2010, and in the summer of 2011 he moved to the Limburg integrator Cegeka as chief commercial officer, staying almost five years (Computable). He then joined the startup Sparkcentral, founded by Davy Kestens, and took over as its CEO in February 2020 (Computable).
Taking over at AE in Leuven
He had sat on AE’s advisory board for six months when, in October 2022, he succeeded Stijn Vander Plaetse as CEO, first on an interim basis (Computable). AE, founded by Bruno Denys, has more than 450 employees, and under Neut it became a Select partner in Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network in October 2026 (AE; AE). Our AE review covers the firm.