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New team to lead online customs specialist C4T

[ November 30, 2022   //   ]

Software as a service (Saas) platform Customs4trade has appointed Rupert Spiegelberg as its new chief executive along with chief revenue officer Jo Buvens and chief product and technology officer Oliver Conze.

Spiegelberg succeeds Pieter Haesaert, who founded C4T together with Ilse Vermeersch as a customs consultancy in 2004 before developing the CAS platform ten years later.

The founders will no longer be involved in the day-to-day operational management and strategy of C4T, but remain as shareholders together with investors 83North, Hi Inov, 42CAP and 10x Group.

“We are extremely proud of all the C4T’ers and our partners who have been relentlessly contributing to the progress we made at C4T the last years”, Haesaert and Vermeersch stated. “We thank our clients and partners for the trust they put in our hands to service them in the complex and time critical world of customs compliance. C4T is now with CAS in a fantastic position to take advantage of all the changes in the customs world that we will see in coming years.”

Spiegelberg is a 20-year veteran of SaaS scale-up businesses in the UK, Europe and the US.

He said: “In taking up the role to lead C4T’s ‘A-team’ of customs experts, I will support their tireless dedication to transform our company into a champion of the sector. We will help our customers go beyond compliance to make customs and trade a strategic component of their growth.”

C4T’s CAS digital platform manages more than 100,000 customs declarations every month for brands such as Honda, Mizuno and Agristo and delivers the benefits of the increased digitisation of the customs sector as national governments across Europe move to upgrade customs systems over the course of the next couple of years.

The CAS collaborative hub, built on the Microsoft Azure platform is designed to manage regional and worldwide customs and trade compliance.

Updates and enhancements include incorporation of any changes to legislation and compliance regulation.

C4T employs about 100 people in Mechelen, Belgium and Wigan, UK and has raised funding from European venture capital companies 83North, Hi Inov and 42CAP.

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