Founders
Steffen Vander Mynsbrugge
Managing Partner — CEO — Strategy Director
Steffen graduated as Commercial Engineer from Solvay Business School and holds a Master degree in Marketing Management from Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. He started his career at Accenture, where he worked on strategic marketing projects. As marketing manager at Essent Belgium and customer experience manager at Proximus and Belgacom, he built up experience of managing strong brands. Steffen is CEO and Managing Partner of 6+1, and leads the Strategy pillar of the agency. Knowing the client is not enough; he motivates the team to walk in the client's shoes in order to make the best advertising together.
Benoît Vancauwenberghe
Managing Partner — Creative Director
Benoît Vancauwenberghe graduated as Aviation Engineer from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. After a first career in aviation, Benoît picked up the market research and advertising vibe. He held management positions at Dedicated Research, Ipsos, Nextage and B&B Consultants, where he worked on major accounts like several P&G brands, the European Commission and Bosch.
Benoît is Creative Director and Managing Partner of 6+1, and a driving force behind 20Something. He is a brand addict and thinks highly of insight driven advertising. His knowledge, right-on judgement and "sharp" tongue make up Benoît's strong advertising personality.
Philippe De Wulf
Managing Partner — Studio Director
Philippe combined Communications studies in Ghent with an international swimming career. He started his professional life at Profirst International as event organizer. He entered the marketing world at CPM as field marketing responsible. As account manager at Anouk Sendrowicz & Partners, he worked on (inter)national campaigns and graphic design projects.
As Managing Partner of 6+1, Philippe is directing the Studio pillar. He supervises the team of graphic designers, photographers and animators to guarantee coherent visual communication.
Jérôme Jaumotte
Managing Partner — CFO — Online Director
Jérôme studied Computer Science with specialization in Real-time Computing and Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence at the Institut Paul Lambin-UCL.
He started his professional career at FNAC Belgium SA in the Imaging department.
Jérôme is now CFO and Managing Partner of 6+1, and leads the Online pillar of the agency, including Web & Mobile strategy and development, social media strategy and applications.
Marc Van den Bossche
Photographer — Production Coordinator
Marc graduated in Fine Arts and Photography. As and independent photographer, he worked on projects for l'Oréal, Armani, Lancôme, Hamburg-Mannheimer, BNP Paribas Real Estate Belux, P&G, Just & Only, Equateur...
He is the agency's photographer and is responsible for the production coordination.
Axel Addington
Free electron
After spending his childhood and adolescence in Great-Britain, the United States, Japan and China, Axel successively hold a Master degree in Economics and History of Art. Rational, rigorous and intuitive: Axel then practiced as copywriter, creative director, video director and art director for various international companies and institutions.
Within 6 +1, he's the free electron. Real think tank and visionary, he mainly works with the creative and studio directors. He's also our french copywriter.
