From 2013 on Els Blaton is CEO for the Belgian entity of a consultancy group with Spanish roots: “everis” and develops the business on the Belgian market. From beginning 2014, everis is part of NTT DATA and belongs to the top 10 worldwide in Business- and IT consultancy.

Before, Els Blaton spent more than 20 years of her career in the financial sector (Bank & Insurance) in different senior management positions, most related to IT. She started her career in the Financial Sector in 1991 at Paribas Banque Belgium, after some mergers she moved to AXA BELGIUM, where she was a member of the Executive Committee for Banking and Insurance from 2007 until 2012.

She built experience in strategic exercises, creating partnerships, efficiency improvement, in- and outsourcing. Through a strong vision, passion, business orientation and reliability she contributes to the success of the companies she’s working for.

Blaton is member of the board of TINC, listed on Eurnonext. She is member of the Digital business committee of AGORIA and besides this “professional career” she has a genuine interest in societal themes. She is member of the advisory board of Passwerk, a company that employs people with Autism Spectrum Disorder and is active in themes around diversity (broad sense) & gender balance in companies. She was together with Isabella Lenarduzzi at the origin of the wo.men@work award, powered by JUMP.

Els Blaton is married and mother of 2 grown up children: a son studying at university in Ghent and a daughter combining “biochemistry studies” with an artist carreer at Cirque du Soleil (currently in Latin-America).