Limecraft has been founded in 2010 by a team of passionated professionals. Our team brings relevant business experience, a global network and in-depth market know-how. We have brought together the best individuals with expertise in all relevant aspects to grow our business successfully.

Maarten Verwaest, Managing partner  -  .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Maarten Verwaest holds a Master in physics. Gifted with a sharp analytic mind and a passionate understanding of technology he learned Information Technology on the job at Framatome Connectors. In charge of the mechanics department, he introduced Pro-engineer as a tool for model-driven development, he implemented CAD/CAM system integration and, off peak hours, he developed robotic measurement systems. In 1998 he became the technology expert at VRT responsible for the design and implementation of plus-million-euro projects, including an integrated ‘Digital Newsroom Production System’, multiple media asset management and web content management systems and a large-scale Content Delivery Network serving broadband applications. The last four years he has been the design authority for a 30 man-year project that delivered a Virtual Modelling system for television production. Author of several distinguished publications and invited as a speaker to conferences worldwide, Maarten knows the international media production business as the back of his hand. Using his broad network of contacts in this business, relying on his critical appreciation of current trends and capitalizing on his extensive experience at setting up large architectures, he’s to herald Limecraft’s vision of industrialising and professionalizing the media industry.


Nico Oorts, Managing partner  -  .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Nico Oorts holds a Master in electronic engineering. Starting in public broadcasting at the VRT as application engineer in charge of the television post production unit, he swiftly joined the VRT Medialab.  Fascinated by applied research and with a natural talent to lead large teams successfully, he managed several large-scale research projects on media adaption, multichannel publication formats, media exchange formats and media system integration and he co-authored scientific publications that were presented at international conferences. He had his first hand at setting up a business as co-founder of channl.tv, an online video management platform. In 2008 he deployed VRT’s Digital Media Factory, a file based media production platform servicing over 1000 professional users. Consequently he started to work at Boulevart, a web production company, where he built a media asset management system for one of Belgiums largest content distributor. Nico takes to Limecraft his ample knowledge of the media production apparatus, his extensive expertise at building innovative media applications and his sound people skills to guide its research and development department. As such helping the media industry to enter the new digital era.


Dieter Van Rijsselbergen, Managing partner  -  .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Dieter Van Rijsselbergen holds a Master in computer science and is now finalizing his dissertation in order to get his Ph.D degree in computer science and engineering at the Multimedia lab of the Ghent University. His research interests include IT-based broadcasting and drama media production, large-scale architecture for video and metadata processing, standardization, video coding, and GPU-driven signal processing. Dieter’s track record shows his broad experience in research projects: he participated in projects about IT-based production and metadata management, modeling techniques for drama media production, multi-channel publication, MXF-based production optimisation, as well as in several projects of the VRT-medialab. His work has been published in scientific journals such as Multimedia Systems and the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal. As Limecraft’s newest managing partner, Dieter is eager to apply his knowledge and experience to the benefit of many.


Carole Delaey, Product manager  -  .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Carole Delaey is a professionally trained film producer/director with first-hand experience in managing complex international projects. She worked in public broadcasting with the BBC and VRT and undertook several independent film projects. During the production of ‘Requiem for a Cup Final’, she was handling the largest budget for a documentary film in Belgium (over € 700.000). In 2006 she set up her own company, targeting Belgian and foreign filmmakers. Her objective was to capitalize on new industry trends such as Web 2.0, new media and web video by supporting the efforts of independent filmmakers in bringing their work to market. Later on, she managed an IBBT research project ‘Independent Films in Progress’, an online production environment to facilitate and enhance the financing and production of independent films, for a total of 16 man-months in research and development. This experience led to her current position as product manager for Limecraft, to help develop the software she as a producer would love to work with.


Wim Van Lancker, Senior system engineer  -  .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Wim Van Lancker holds a Master in computer science. He worked as a researcher at the Multimedia Lab at Ghent University until the end of 2011, investigating format-independent media resource adaptation and delivery techniques. His current interests include scalable video coding technologies, media content adaptation and delivery, video quality, video streaming, media content presentation, Semantic Web technologies and multichannel publishing.
Wim’s track record shows his broad experience in research projects: he participated in projects about video quality assessment, error concealment, content adaptation and delivery, multi-channel publication, in cooperation with several companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, VRT-medialab, Televic, Belgacom, ... His work has been published in scientific journals such as Multimedia Tools and Applications.


Karel Braeckman, Senior system engineer  -  .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Karel Braeckman obtained his masters in electronic engineering, after which he started working at VRT-medialab. He is skilled in Java, Ruby, Rails and Javascript. At VRT-medialab, Karel played a key role in the research and development of prototypes relating to innovative media workflows, managing media material and its associated metadata, and semantic metadata for smarter media search. He authored several scientific publications that were presented at international conferences. His main interests include the management of media collections, with a focus on optimizing the search and navigation within large media collections.