SOFIE GEEROMS

SOFIE GEEROMS
Managing Director
BeCommerce

From Disruption to Acceleration : The Rise of E-commerce in the wake of Covid-19

Sofie Geeroms is since 2018 the managing director of the non-profit organization BeCommerce. In 2015, she founded JASMO, an American early stage start-up company connecting home cooks to customers through a platform. Previously, she has worked in the finance industry with Fortune 100/500 insurance companies based in Manhattan, NY. Before heading to the USA, she served several Belgian ministerial cabinets advocating interests in social economic files, advancing commercial diplomacy for Belgian companies abroad and revising the federal internal audit system. She has also worked for the Swiss Government in Lausanne and the European Agency Eurojust in The Hague. Sofie Geeroms is a lawyer from training (NY & Brussels Bar): she studied law at the KULeuven, Harvard Law School and the Sorbonne Panthéon-Assas II, and obtained a Ph.D in Methodology & Taxonomy at the KULeuven. 
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The BeCommerce Market Monitor presents the most recent facts and figures from the Belgian consumer market on twenty established market segments. As the facts and figures of consumer spending for 2021 are available, BeCommerce would like to share the latest data and trends more in detail. What are some of the topics the Market Monitor discusses: How much does the consumer spend online? Which sectors are responsible for the increase in online spending? What are the preferred payment methods and devices of the Belgian? How does consumer behavior evolve?